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The HIPAA Definition of Covered Entities Explained

HIPAA Journal

The HIPAA definition of Covered Entities is generally explained as health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers that conduct electronic transactions for which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed standards. 2) A health care clearinghouse. (3)

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The New Loneliness Health Agenda from Dr. Vivek Murphy, US Surgeon General

Health Populi

This isn’t a theoretical thing: Dr. Murthy has come out of the loneliness closet to tell us that he, too, has confronted and dealt with to loneliness, putting himself out there/here as Exhibit A in the epidemic of Americans who are lonely — and suffering risks across every dimension of personal and social health.

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How World AIDS Day 2024 Can Inform Healthcare in 2025

Health Populi

Some of the initiatives going forward at home and abroad include expanding prevention and access to treatment, addressing the social determinants of health that underpin health disparities and poorer outcomes for some people, advancing innovation and R&D for HIV/AIDS, and strengthening partnerships both domestically and globally.