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LifeWIRE and HITRUST: Insights, Questions, and Answers

LifeWIRE and HITRUST: Insights, Questions, and Answers

At the core of every quality innovation in healthcare has always been the privacy and security of every patient's information. Now, more than ever — and amidst the acceleration of engagement-type innovation during the pandemic — quality innovation combines patient engagement with mitigating risks by ensuring privacy and security compliance.  Last April, at a virtual event, leaders in healthcare and cy...
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Patient <> Provider <> Platform: One Security Loop

Patient <> Provider <> Platform: One Security Loop

The seismic shifts in the uptake of digital technology due to COVID-19 have increased the appetite for innovation in the ways people go about their day-to-day lives. In healthcare, it means new-found ease and convenience for patient and provider, all the while mainstreaming safety measures.   According to the Food and Drug Administration, digital health tools improve the ability to accurately...
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Healthcare Voices on Telehealth Security Concerns

Healthcare Voices on Telehealth Security Concerns

In 2020, the international health emergency of unprecedented proportion set off telehealth's massive expansion. Out of the need to ensure access to essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic, privacy rules were eased.  Covered healthcare providers were allowed flexibility to use nonpublic-facing audio or video communication technologies to deliver telehealth services even if that might mean a risk to data security. Video chat...
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Securing Telehealth During a Pandemic

Securing Telehealth During a Pandemic

 The COVID-19 pandemic has enabled that huge leap into telehealth because of the urgency to provide care. The U.S. has waived certain regulatory requirements to enable flexibility to use telehealth as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But with healthcare delivery moved online or to the “cloud,” as with any online activity there are security risks involved. Even with guidelines being relaxed to expedite care, the healthcare industry still must have a system...
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The New Normal After COVID-19

The New Normal After COVID-19

 Urgent measures to save lives at all costs have been the default response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This public health crisis introduces unprecedented and complex challenges to our health system’s collective capacity to respond. More than two months into the country’s outbreak, it looks now that the urgent and large-scale responses have worked against an envisaged doomsday scenario. "What’s next?" is the question that remains. There is certainly no goi...
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3 Essentials in Communicating Care

3 Essentials in Communicating Care

With many health systems now adopting telehealth services, aside from proven engagement outcomes, the highest security standards become the minimum requirement.  Technology is used to connect the patients and the healthcare team, to retrieve, store, transfer or share patient data digitally all from a multitude of sources. So physicians need to be confident that the system is secure, and patients should have faith in the system that they are protected. Patient safety is about preve...
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