{"id":193,"date":"2015-06-04T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/06\/04\/telehealth-requires-a-national-health-care-id-texas-medical-board-at-the-root\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T23:03:00","slug":"telehealth-requires-a-national-health-care-id-texas-medical-board-at-the-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/telehealth-requires-a-national-health-care-id-texas-medical-board-at-the-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth Requires a National Health Care ID. Texas Medical Board at the Root?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last week a district court blocked a Texas Medical Board rule that required a face to face video conference or\u00a0an in person meeting prior to telemedicine. It was a win for telehealth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officials of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimecentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CHIME-Patient-Identity-Matching.pdf\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,143,190);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\">College of Healthcare Information Management Executives<\/a>\u00a0(CHIME) have sent a letter to two U.S. Representatives \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upton.house.gov\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,143,190);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\">Fred Upton<\/a>\u00a0(R-Michigan) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/degette.house.gov\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,143,190);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\">Diana DeGette<\/a>\u00a0(D-Colorado) \u2013 expressing their concern about the need for better patient identification. &#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They point to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAs data exchange increases among providers, patient data matching errors and mismatches will become exponentially more dangerous and costly.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Congress should\u00a0lift prohibitions against a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/herox.com\/PatientIDChallenge\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,143,190);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national patient ID<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Increased interoperability comes increased \u201cthreats to data integrity.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalmed.com\/telehealthanswers\/telehealth-data-security-and-a-national-patient-id\/\">GlobalMD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last week a district court blocked a Texas Medical Board rule that required a face to face video conference or\u00a0an in person meeting prior to telemedicine. It was a win for telehealth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officials of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimecentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CHIME-Patient-Identity-Matching.pdf\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,143,190);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\">College of Healthcare Information Management Executives<\/a>\u00a0(&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-health-care-data","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}