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Protecting Privacy
Advances in electronic health record technology, the ever-expanding use of social media, and cybersecurity sabotage threaten patient privacy and render physicians and health care organizations liable for violating federal and state laws. Violating a patient ’s privacy is both an ethical and legal breach with potentially serious legal and reputational consequences. Even an unintentional Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) violation can result in financial penalties and reputational harm. Staying complaint with HIPAA req uires vigilance on the part of both individuals with legitimate access ...
Source: Neurologic Clinics - May 31, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Rachel V. Rose, Abhay Kumar, Joseph S. Kass Source Type: research

Prepare Now for End of Public Health Emergency, Telepsychiatry Experts Advise
In a webinar today, APA leaders in telepsychiatry urged psychiatrists to start working with their telepsychiatry patients now to prepare for the end of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11.Shaban Khan, M.D., director of child and adolescent telepsychiatry at NYU Langone and chair of the APA Committee on Telepsychiatry, and John Torous, M.D., director of the Digital Psychiatry Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and chair of the APA Committee on Mental Health Information Technology, outlined what psychiatrists need to know about the status of telepsychiatry in terms of prescribing medications, licen...
Source: Psychiatr News - April 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: CMS John Torous Medicare PHE public health emergency Shaban Khan telehealth telepsychiatry Source Type: research

Cancers, Vol. 15, Pages 2141: Temporal Machine Learning Analysis of Prior Mammograms for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction
Maryellen L. Giger The identification of women at risk for sporadic breast cancer remains a clinical challenge. We hypothesize that the temporal analysis of annual screening mammograms, using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, could accurately identify women at risk of future breast cancer. Women with an imaging abnormality, which had been biopsy-confirmed to be cancer or benign, who also had antecedent imaging available were included in this case&ndash;control study. Sequences of antecedent mammograms were retrospectively collected under HIPAA-approved guidelines. Radiomic and deep-learning-based featur...
Source: Cancers - April 4, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Hui Li Kayla Robinson Li Lan Natalie Baughan Chun-Wai Chan Matthew Embury Gary J. Whitman Randa El-Zein Isabelle Bedrosian Maryellen L. Giger Tags: Article Source Type: research

Return of Results in Genomic Research Using Large-Scale or Whole Genome Sequencing: Toward a New Normal
This article analyzes the ethical and legal foundations for researcher duties to offer adult participants their interpreted results and raw data as the new normal in genomic research. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, Volume 24 is August 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.PMID:36913714 | DOI:10.1146/annurev-genom-101122-103209 (Source: Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics)
Source: Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics - March 13, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Susan M Wolf Robert C Green Source Type: research