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In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established standards to protect patients' sensitive and confidential data. These standards require health insurance providers to enforce strict privacy and security measures to safeguard electronically protected health information (ePHI).

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a drastic change in people’s lives and the business world. Even healthcare technology witnessed major advancements like telehealth, virtual medical assistance, and automated medical apps and software. Although, the transformation of the healthcare industry is running successfully, however, protecting compliance regulations is a bit concerning for healthcare organizations. And true to that, healthcare service providers and patients are not exempted from any compliances or regulations.

The healthcare industry is growing expeditiously as healthcare practitioners are looking for ways to improve patient care and give them easy access to care options while reducing the overall cost of maintaining the infrastructure. Fortunately, digital technology has made it easier for healthcare specialists and patients to communicate with each other. Virtual care and remote medicine are breaking down the barriers that would previously prevent patients from accessing doctors and other healthcare options.

Think of HITECH compliance like a HIPAA upgrade. The HITECH Act came more than ten years after HIPAA in order to enforce tougher data security requirements mandated for all healthcare organizations as well as their business associates to follow. But what is the HITECH Act? What is HITECH compliance? And what software testing strategies should your team implement in order to uphold HITECH compliance?

Telehealth software in the healthcare industry is now more relevant than ever. From small medical practices to large hospital networks, patients attending a medical appointment via telemedicine software is becoming just as common as an in-person visit to the doctor’s office. Has your organization adopted a remote healthcare platform? Without a strong telehealth software solution in place, your medical team may not be keeping up with industry expectations when crisis occur and is missing out on opportunities to provide the virtual clinical care many patients need.