Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative, which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizations. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. HCA was in the news for other reasons, too – hackers got their hands on HCA patient data and put it up for sale in an online forum. The data breach impacted about 11 million patients and included demographic and contact information, though the provider said no clinical, financial, or otherwise sensitive information was breached. ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). Studies A report from Health Gorilla found that 95% of patients are concerned about the possibility of data breaches affecting their medical records, and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Arcadia AT&T Availity Brightside Health Cerner Christine Swisher ClearDATA CMS CommonWell Health Alliance Cotiviti CVS CareMark Dave Wichmann Dr. Amy Compton-Philips eClinicalWorks eCW eLovu Health Source Type: blogs