What You Should Know:
- Intraprise Health acquires HIPAA One to create comprehensive integrated security risk management and compliance platform for healthcare.
Intraprise Health, a provider of cybersecurity services and solutions and the Protect™ risk management software platform, today announced that it has acquired HIPAA One, a provider of HIPAA compliance automation software. The merger allows Intraprise Health to offer an integrated set of cybersecurity and
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Kettering Health to Deploy Nuance’s AI-Driven Physician Documentation for ED
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the Kettering
Health Network has selected ED Guidance for Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor.
- This AI-powered computer-assisted physician
documentation (CAPD) solution will help reduce physicians’ administrative
burden while lowering the risk of adverse safety events, missing diagnoses, and
malpractice litigation – priorities for all physicians, especially in the ED
where the nature of care presents special challenges and
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and
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Nuance Integrates with Microsoft Teams for Virtual Telehealth Consults
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications Inc. and Microsoft
Corp. announced that Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), an
ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution, is now integrated into Microsoft
Teams for virtual health consults.
- The ongoing strategic partnership between Microsoft and
Nuance aims to combat burnout while supporting the telehealth movement by
improving healthcare experiences—for patients and physicians—with seamlessly
integrated
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5 Critical Considerations for Patient Privacy in Telehealth
Sachin Nayyar, CEO at Securonix
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous ripple effect across all industries, with one of the most impacted being healthcare. Providers have had to quickly adapt to supporting patients ‘virtually’ in a secure manner, while simultaneously developing procedures to support accurate reporting to government organizations. These changes have placed added pressure on security and privacy professionals, as they struggle to keep up with urgent demand.
Mature
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT
Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest
update to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
- The Azure IoT Connector for FHIR makes it easy for
health developers to set up a pipeline to manage protected health information
(PHI) from IoT devices and enable care teams to view patient data in context
with clinical records in FHIR.
This week, Microsoft released the preview of
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Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Offering for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know
Today, Microsoft announced its first industry-specific
cloud offering, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which builds upon
Microsoft’s core cloud capabilities to meet the most important needs for
healthcare organizations.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted and integrated capabilities for healthcare organizations to improve collaboration, decision-making, and operational efficiencies to enhance patient engagement, connect health teams, and support
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Apervita Launches Deep Encryption Tech to Stop Payer, Provider Cyber Threats
What You Should Know:
- Apervita establishes first cloud-based healthcare platform for payers and providers to offer deep encryption of health data.
- Additionally, Apervita’s Deep Encryption feature meets requirements of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) recent Information Blocking final rule, which calls for granular, PHI field-level privacy to support data segmentation, while still allowing for data to be accessible.
Apervita, the leading
platform for value-based
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HITRUST Releases New Tools to Improve Third-Party Risk Management
- Comprehensive TPRM methodology and enhancements to HITRUST assessment XChange combine to overcome TPRM challenges. - The new release of the HITRUST TPRM Qualification Methodology expands on HITRUST’s popular Risk Triage Methodology with a six-step qualification process that provides organizations a comprehensive approach to defining inherent risk factorsHITRUST, a leading data protection standards development and certification organization, today announced a major release of its HITRUST
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Syapse Leverages Machine Data Analytics to Safeguard Global Patient Data
- Today, Syapse and Sumo Logic have released an announcement furthering the support and delivery of valuable real-world data-based insights to its health system and life sciences partners. - Sumo Logic’s standardized process, security and audit capabilities are helping Syapse through a global health system network, adhere to strict healthcare data regulations.Sumo Logic, the leader in continuous intelligence, today announced that Syapse has chosen Sumo Logic to support the delivery of valuable
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