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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

What is HIPAA? HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. So how did HIPAA evolve from being a vehicle for improving the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage to being one of the most comprehensive and detailed federal privacy laws? What is HIPAA Title II?

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3 Compelling Reasons — Beyond the Law — to Expand Consumer Access to Personal Records

HIT Consultant

These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ).

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How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient

Healthcare IT Today

Solutions available today are simple, secure, and HIPAA compliant, minimizing the need for IT teams to configure or support complicated software. After joining CLI in 1999, she rose to CEO in 2006 and leads a team of over 250 employees and thousands of professional interpreters.

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Key Healthcare Compliance Examples To Understand Its Importance

MedTrainer

Advocate Health Care HIPAA Breach (2016) In August 2016, Advocate Health Care Network —one of the largest healthcare systems in Illinois—agreed to settle potential violations of Privacy and Security Rules for $5.55 This settlement was the largest HIPAA settlement at that time. Loss of reimbursements. License revocation or suspension.

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Final Rule Strengthens Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Care

Compliancy Group

In 2006, New York passed Timothy’s Law, the first state mental health parity law. State and local government health plans must now comply with MHPAEA requirements (when the MHPAEA was enacted, the law did not cover non-federal governmental health plans). Timothy’s Law, unlike the MHPA, provides parity for substance use disorders.

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How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient

Healthcare IT Today

Solutions available today are simple, secure, and HIPAA compliant, minimizing the need for IT teams to configure or support complicated software. After joining CLI in 1999, she rose to CEO in 2006 and leads a team of over 250 employees and thousands of professional interpreters.

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Editorial: HIPAA Enforcement Trends and Outlook

HIPAA Journal

Considering the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is now in its third decade, the Privacy Rule took effect 20 years ago, and compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule has been mandatory for 18 years, there have been relatively few financial penalties over the years, with just 130 imposed by OCR to resolve HIPAA violations.

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