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Opinion: Hospitals can fight cybercriminals by prioritizing security of billing data, not medical records

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For years, regulators and providers have assumed that medical records — diagnoses, lab results, treatment histories — are the crown jewels hackers are after. This assumption has shaped everything from HIPAA compliance strategies to hospital security budgets. But it’s wrong. Read the rest…

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What is Digital Communication: Comprehensive Explanation with Examples

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Medical histories, test results, and treatment plans are now shared seamlessly, ensuring everyone is on the same page. And patients gladly take the opportunity to access their online medical records — 54% reviewed their records at least three times during 2022 , compared to 38% in 2020.

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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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The Institute of Medicine first advocated a shift from paper-based to electronic medical records in 1992 , yet, only 13% of U.S. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant? HIPAA does not specifically prohibit using and sharing open protocol-based software. Many are still making the transition.

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Data privacy concerns don’t hinder digital health app usage

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The juli platform itself aggregates and analyses data from electronic medical records, smartphones, wearable devices, and the environment, as well as patient responses based on between three and five daily questions and bi-weekly clinically validated, disease-specific questionnaires.

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Understanding the current and future state of complex health data protection laws

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Compliance in the US – HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covers several areas relating to health data, with one of the key requirements being a set of standards – the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule – to protect sensitive PHI from being disclosed without the patient’s consent.

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How policymakers could tweak HIPAA to better protect abortion records

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WASHINGTON — Patient privacy law offers little protection if law enforcement requests a person’s medical records — an issue that’s fueled concern as states impose restrictions on abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Jacobs recently worked with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)

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