HIPAA Pulse
The tools your practice uses determine your security profile. EHR platforms, communication tools, cloud services, and security infrastructure all carry HIPAA implications. These stories cover technology developments, vendor security incidents, and infrastructure best practices — helping you make informed decisions about the systems that touch patient data.
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This post was co-authored with Niall Klyn, director of data science at Essentia HealthThere’s an old adage: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. At Essentia Health, an integrated system with a predominantly rural service area across Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, we’re redefining what we can get done today by taking a bold approach to the new technology at our fingertips.
Zack Whittaker reports: A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtain a U.K immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website is exposing at least 100,000 documents from... Source
Securing a substantial new funding increase is critical for the Department of Veterans Affairs' already-costly Electronic Health Record Modernization Program, and accelerating its expanded rollout across dozens of medical centers over the next two years, according to VA Secretary Doug Collins. WHY IT MATTERSCollins has requested an additional $840 million increase in the EHRM budget for Fiscal Year 2027, bringing the FY27 total to $4.2 billion. He told lawmakers last week that the fund
Healthcare organisations across Asia-Pacific continue to prioritise AI tools that improve operational efficiency and reduce administrative workload, as interest grows in more advanced clinical applications.
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Remote patient monitoring was supposed to make healthcare easier.Patients with chronic illnesses could stay home while devices quietly tracked blood pressure, glucose levels, oxygen saturation and other vital signs. Hospitals could intervene earlier. Providers could reduce hospitalizations. Medicare reimbursement created momentum. Technology companies flooded into the market.And then, reality arrived.
For the first time, a blood test can reveal factors in tumor microenvironments across multiple cancer types, and could make precision oncology possible across a multitude of cancer patient populations, Mayo Clinic has announced.A new artificial intelligence framework, developed alongside Stanford Medicine researchers over the past eight years, offers a paradigm shift for clinical decision-making in oncology, according to Dr. Aadel Chaudhuri, a radiation oncologist at Mayo Clinic and professor in
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Singapore's SingHealth is collaborating with the Royal University of Bhutan to develop an AI-assisted chest X-ray model to support the diagnosis of lung conditions in rural hospitals. At a recent government-hosted AI conference in Singapore, Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State for Health and Communications and Information, announced the two-year memorandum of understanding between SingHealth and the Royal University of Bhutan's Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT).
A new AI-driven knowledge search system based on a private network has gone live at Asan Medical Center, one of South Korea's largest hospitals. The hospital's IT team took an on-premises approach to developing the system, which "runs in a closed network environment, completely disconnected from the external internet," AMC said in a statement.WHY IT MATTERS
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There's a follow-up to the case of a motor insurance worker who received a suspended prison sentence for unlawfully accessing personal information. On May 21, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced that it had secured a £355,880.10 confiscation order against the former Manchester motor insurance worker, Rizwan Manjra. A statement by the ICO indicates that... Source
For years, hospitals have poured time, money and manpower into electronic health records, building sprawling digital systems meant to organize modern medicine. But somewhere along the way, many clinicians found themselves buried beneath the very technology designed to help them.At Children's Hospital of Orange County, known as CHOC Children's and part of the Rady Children's Health health system, Dr. Steven Martel believes a new wave of artificial intelligence tools may finally help reverse that
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