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With the deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule less than a week away, the Office of the National Coordinator and the HHS Office for Civil Rights are giving a hand to providers and payers, issuing examples of the notices of privacy practices that must be furnished to patients and plan members under the law.

Johnson + Johnson and the mHealth Alliance are partnering to serve developing nations where mobile healthcare tools are catching on but held back by limited resources.

Will the omnibus HIPAA final rule arrive on September 23 as the scary new face of healthcare privacy and security, or a countenance of incremental change?

With more than 2.3 million visits each year, Sharp HealthCare sees plenty of patients pass through its doors. That means ensuring patient information is easily accessible within its electronic health record system -- and patients are correctly identified -- is critically important.

As patient engagement grows, a new survey indicates that a growing number of U.S. consumers would be willing to switch doctors to gain online access to their own electronic medical records. Doctors, though, are not as eager to make the change.

Because an unprecedented amount of sensitive personal data will flow through health insurance exchanges, consumers and healthcare organizations must demand that robust security be driven into the operational fabric of the HIX, alongside proactive risk management that is pervasive at all levels of the ecosystem.

Health giant Kaiser Permanente is notifying patients of a HIPAA privacy breach after an emailed attachment containing the protected health information of patients was sent to a recipient outside the Kaiser network.

PatientPoint announced the appointment of Geeta Nayyar, MD, as CMIO. Nayyar was most recently the CMIO at AT&T. She also served as the principal medical officer at Vangent and as the CMO of APCO Worldwide.

A bill introduced in Congress this week would enable healthcare providers to treat Medicare patients in other states via telemedicine without needing different licenses for each state.

Oregon is providing a functional telecom infrastructure to support healthcare statewide. Yet barriers to the expansion of telemedicine for care delivery persist.