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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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How Medicare Advantage Programs Can Address Social Risk and Improve Health Outcomes

HIT Consultant

When a new member joins, MA plans usually lack insights into beneficiaries claim history, morbidity risk, and health behaviors. Without that data, understanding social risk becomes difficult for identifying beneficiary needs, guiding interventions, and ultimately improving health outcomes.

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Safeguarding Patient Privacy Through EMR Compliance

Compliancy Group

Bringing about positive health outcomes depends significantly on sharing protected health information (PHI) with other doctors, facilities, and insurers. Understanding the HIPAA rules and the security steps to take can help protect patient information and maintain EMR compliance.

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Video: Why HIPAA Compliance is Important for Healthcare Professionals

HIPAA Journal

Many sources explaining why HIPAA compliance is important for healthcare professionals tend to focus on the purpose of HIPAA regulations rather than the benefits of compliance for healthcare professionals. Conversely, the failure to comply with HIPAA can have significant professional and personal consequences.

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California Consumer Privacy Act can cause headaches for healthcare orgs

Healthcare It News

Part of the issue, say researchers, stems from the combination of CCPA and HIPAA. "But healthcare organizations have an additional burden of complying with HIPAA – and we found the interplay of the two laws creates some unintended hurdles," Mulgund said. The law explicitly exempts HIPAA-eligible information.

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Preventing Non-Compliance Consequences in Healthcare

Verisys

In the healthcare industry, compliance with regulatory standards is not merely a requirement but a cornerstone of safe, effective, and ethical patient care. When healthcare organizations fail to meet compliance standards, the consequences can be severespanning legal and financial realms. What is Non-Compliance in Healthcare?

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Send Mammogram leverages cloud for data security

Healthcare It News

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.