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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of Big Data: Ensuring Patient Privacy in Healthcare Data Analytics

HIT Consultant

Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Jane Sarashon

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents. health care.

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

HIT Consultant

Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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The Social Determinants of Food for Health, Farms, and the Economy

Health Populi

In 2016, 21.4 on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories. on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories.

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How Will New FDA Hearing Aid Regulations Impact Health Plans?

HIT Consultant

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. Health plans offering the OTC benefit can also leverage the opportunity to educate members about the significant role hearing aids can play in improving their overall health.

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