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Alexa: ‘Will patients share their information with you?’

Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select covered entities and business associates subject to HIPAA to build Alexa skills so they can transmit and receive protected health information as part of an invite-only program.

Guidelines for Releasing Patient Information to Law Enforcement

Introduction Hospitals and health systems are responsible for protecting the privacy and confidentiality of their patients and patient information.
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AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference 2018: AHA Digital Media Toolkit

Introduction As you attend various workshops and sessions throughout the 2018 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference,

Patient and Family-Centered Care: A Hospital Self-Assessment Inventory

This assessment inventory is designed to help hospital and health system leaders, trustees, medical staff and employees think about how a hospital, department, or clinical area operationalizes patient- and family-centered care.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home: An Initiative to Improve Care Coordination and Access to Health Care

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality of health care services provided to patients by implementing patient-centered medical home principles.
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Guide: Contracting for Electronic Health Records: Guidelines for Hospitals

To assist hospitals in working with health information technology \(IT\) vendors to achieve meaningful use, the AHA has developed the following guidelines for EHR contracting.
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Trendwatch: Administrative Simplification Strategies Offer Opportunities to Improve Patient Experience and...

The health care system suffers from an overabundance of paper work.