Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

There are a lot of new ideas and technologies being made to better the world of healthcare. These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? What should be trending right now in health IT? To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. The following is what they had to share with us. Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. Areas to be focused on: Data Ownership – only this guarantees that patients’ data is safe and secure. Ownership means an organization knows where the data is stored and who has access. This excludes unauthorized data transfers to third parties (e.g., advertising platforms). Privacy features for HIPAA compliance would mean means and features that allow organizations to exclude PHI f...
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