Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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 65% distrust “Big Tech” to store their data. When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%).
A survey from The Harris Poll and ClearDATA found that 81% of Americans incorrectly assume that all protected health information collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA. Meanwhile, 58% have never considered where their PHI is shared when using those apps – in part because privacy is secondary to insurance coverage and convenience for most digital health users.
As healthcare organizations turn to edge computing to support the hospital at home and other types of remote care, most rely on outside help, according to the 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Edge Computing. Among organizations surveyed, 64% rely on external expertise for project planning and 71% do so for production.
One in four patients have self-diagnosed themselves based on information they got from social media, according to research from Tebra. Of these patients, 43% followed up with a medical professional – and 82% had their self-diagnosis confirmed.
Partnerships
Product and Company News
Sales
Awards and Certifications
People
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