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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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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. With support for multi-cloud deployments, telemedicine and personalized health, patient and clinician devices, and IoT devices deployed in the home, perimeter security will no longer be enough. to build out their cybersecurity program.

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HIPAA Compliance Guide: All Your Questions Answered

Total HIPAA

Explore the full article to gain a holistic understanding of the law or use the table of contents below to find the specific information you need. Your HIPAA compliance plan will change as your staff, IT department, and business grows or evolves. HIPAA” is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

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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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Decoding Front-of-Package Food Labels: Are They Really Telling Us What’s Healthy?

Bill of Health

Food Safety Decoding Front-of-Package Food Labels: Are They Really Telling Us Whats Healthy? Front-of-package labeling has the potential to increase nutrition information, and therefore dietary health. Front-of-package labeling has the potential to increase nutrition information, and therefore dietary 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.