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Penalties For Violating HIPAA

Electronic Health Reporter

If your organization handles protected health information (PHI) or electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), you should be well aware of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known commonly as HIPAA. The HIPAA compliance is regulated by the federal government and failure to comply with it can attract […].

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

’ ” An application Programing Interface is a set of protocols and definitions allowing digital services and products to communicate with each other over the Internet. The test was conducted over two weeks with six months of static code analysis. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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HIPAA Designated Record Set

Telebehavioral Health Institute

HIPAA Designated Record Set Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, behavioral health specialists are required to provide patients access to the protected health information (PHI) contained in their designated record set. Definition of Designated Record … Read more. What is a designated record set?

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The use cases for health care must wrestle with HIPAA and other privacy laws that may be relevant for a particular medical situation or patient population.

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What Therapists Need to Know About HIPAA Compliant Communications

TheraNest

Your clients need to feel a certain level of trust to benefit from your services, and a good part of this trust comes from knowing that the information they give you is safe and HIPAA compliant. . If any of these communications contain client information, then they should be secure and HIPAA compliant. But what does this mean exactly?

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

The American Academy of Family Physicians offers several definitions , which I’ve mashed up here. In the U.S., more health plans are attending to SDoH, and physicians at the front-end challenged with this coordination work-flow. So what is primary care, anyway? There’s a blur between self-care and more formal primary care.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

“Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. And, there are over 500 mentions of the word, “security.” ” Privacy and security concerns are mainstream among Americans in 2020.