Andrea Fox
The new patient portal, part of a $25 million migration to Epic through the EHR vendor's Community Connect model, has created "a temporary disruption for some of our patients," the health system said.
In its new survey report and implementation guide, the initiative said both HIPAA covered entities and vendors see the legacy TPRM process as a productivity drain, demonstrating a need to create norms around inherent risk and vendor tiering.
Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical notes that can be added to EHRs. A new imaging service, meanwhile, could help reduce costs compared to self-managed infrastructure.
The interoperability organization's Consumer Voices Workgroup says its recommendations – for improving patient access, use and sharing of data – are 100% achievable using current technology.
Also: U.K.-based Preventx announces a new Cincinnati lab offering remote STI testing to help American public health agencies manage the challenges of hard-to-reach populations.
HIPAA covered entities should be proactive, requiring notification of any security incident – not just breaches – in their business agreements, says Michelle Garvey Brennfleck, healthcare corporate and regulatory shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.
In the future, a private 5G network could function like today's wired network connections, according to Shibu Thomas, the health system's chief technology officer.
The agencies contacted 130 health systems and telehealth providers by mail to emphasize the potential HIPAA risks of using Meta/Facebook pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools that may be "impermissibly disclosing" protected health information.
United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, is a key resource for information blocking and interoperability compliance. It is adding 20 new data elements and one new data class – facility information – to the previous standard set.
After legal pushback from providers and a veto of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority requirements, the OHCA Board approved emergency rules to encourage collaboration with the new statewide health information exchange that launched July 1.