Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

HIPAA is a cornerstone of patient privacy in healthcare, but ensuring compliance is not just the responsibility of IT or the compliance team. Heres an overview of the responsibilities different roles have in maintaining HIPAA compliance. Heres an overview of the responsibilities different roles have in maintaining HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health. "Should requirements of such a duty be based on the sensitivity of collected data?"

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

HIPAA requires covered entities to provide training to staff to ensure HIPAA Rules and regulations are understood. During HIPAA training, healthcare employees should be aware of the possible penalties for HIPAA violations, but what are those penalties, and what happens if you break HIPAA Rules?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It seems obvious that an alert like this is going to help doctors provide better care to their patients. Many times a doctor may ignore the risk of the interaction given other clinical needs. Doctors get notified of important things they can address with the patient while they’re present with the patient.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 31, 2023

The reason the HIPAA retention requirements needs clarifying is that the distinction between HIPAA medical records retention and HIPAA record retention can be confusing. Throughout the Administrative Simplification Regulations of HIPAA, there are several references to HIPAA data retention.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 1, 2023

The question “Does HIPAA Apply to Employers” is one that has provoked many different responses due to the complicated nature of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The HIPAA Privacy Rule is one of the most complicated pieces of legislation affecting the healthcare and health insurance industries.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Developed using OpenAI's ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. The company says the online bot, in beta, could help doctors "cut the scut" that raises their burnout levels. Doctors often call this 'scut work.’

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 20, 2021

The Dialer is HIPAA-compliant and doesn’t require any additional setup on the patient side.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. Thus, it can distinguish whether the word “park” refers to parking a car, a hospital named South Park, or a doctor named Park.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The hospital may be penalized for its HIPAA compliance based on the investigation caused by the alleged illegal activities of its rogue employees. Harvey allegedly received patient information from Kirby Dandridge, 38, Sylvia Taylor, 43, Kara Thompson, 30, Melanie Russell, 41, and Adrianna Taber, 26, who were all charged with violating HIPAA.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A “bag of money” emoji accompanied by a “doctor” emoji is unlikely to satisfy the legal standard for disclosure. Increasingly, patients complain about insufficient facetime with their doctor, feeling they don’t have enough time to communicate their needs. For this disclosure, emojis would not be appropriate.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Restrictions should follow HIPAA guidelines and any regional privacy regulations. Healthcare services must ensure all users — including doctors, nurses, technicians and the patients themselves — understand a few security best practices. AI Threat Detection More sophisticated cybersecurity strategies may be necessary.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

AI Medical Scribe: The Smart Doctor’s Assistant for Elevating Efficiencies Virtual doctors or video consultations with doctors are increasingly becoming the norm in modern healthcare. AI Telemedicine solution providers must understand HIPAA and other healthcare regulations to ensure patient data privacy and security.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Patients at Emory Healthcare could have less chance of adverse drug events and know what they will pay for prescriptions at the pharmacy before they leave the doctor's office or hospital with AI-driven insights.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 28, 2023

When determining if telling a story about a patient is a HIPAA violation, it is necessary to take into account who is telling the story, why the story is being told, and what information about the patient is revealed in the story. One of the objectives of the Privacy Rule is to protect patient privacy.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2023

Doctors too will be able to use eClinicalWorks GPT to create progress note summaries and publish them to the patient record. In production now are two tools using Azure's HIPAA-compliant GPT3 that support clinical efficiency and organizational effectiveness, according to the demo on the HIMSS23 show floor.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 16, 2022

One main focus of HIPAA regulations is ensuring the privacy of the protected health information (PHI) of patients. Does talking about a patient violate HIPAA? Does Talking About a Patient Violate HIPAA? As we’ve already said, maintaining the privacy of PHI is one of the key requirements of HIPAA Rules and Regulations.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 28, 2023

The problem with many of these tools is they cannot be used in connection with protected health information without violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules. According to Amazon, its new AI-based service will reduce the time doctors have to spend on clinical documentation.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 18, 2024

As Price and Cohen have pointed out, entities subject to federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements represent just the tip of the informational iceberg. So-called “commercially available information,” not protected by HIPAA, is being used to generate inferences about health improvement interventions.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 6, 2023

The prosecution of two doctors accused of criminal HIPAA violations and conspiring with the Russian government has ended in a mistrial as the jury could not reach a unanimous guilty verdict. 37, a former anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins, and her spouse, Jamie Lee Henry, 40, a doctor and U.S. Dr. Anna Gabrielian. government.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Aidan Simister, Co-Founder and CEO of Lepide In 2023, HIPAA fines amounted to $4,176,500, which is a rise of over $2,000,000 in 2022. So yes, HIPAA fines have doubled. So, a drastic surge in HIPAA fines raises questions about the underlying causes, and whether this is being seen the world over. So, how can we do that?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. A diabetes monitor prescribed by a doctor is covered by HIPAA, she explained, but an online therapist who is not associated with your health plan or provider, and who only takes credit cards, is not.

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Health Law Advisor

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The bulletin advises that “[r]egulated entities are not permitted to use tracking technologies in a manner that would result in impermissible disclosures of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) to tracking technology vendors or any other violations of the HIPAA Rules.” available doctor appointments) and sent to the third party provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 3, 2022

A recent poll of webinar attendees found that barely one-third may be HIPAA compliant, based upon responses to a single question. Conducting an annual Security Risk Analysis is one of the foundational requirements of HIPAA compliance. Look at the statistics of HIPAA violations and fines. × HIPAA Compliance Simplified.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. consumers found that only 5% of people had received in-home healthcare in the past year, while 89% of people received care at a doctor’s office or hospital/medical facility, in-person. An aging U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

The following is a guest article by John Funk, Creative Consultant at SevenAtoms Telemedicine has completely changed the healthcare game, allowing you to chat with your doctor from the comfort of your couch goodbye waiting rooms, traffic jams, and awkward small talk! Just you, your Wi-Fi, and the doctor on screen.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been another bad year for healthcare data breaches, with some of the biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 resulting in the impermissible disclosure of well over a million records. The Biggest HIPAA Breaches of 2022. The 12 biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 affected almost 22.66 million patients and health plan members.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Did you really want to leave the house to sit in a doctor's office waiting room? It's fully HIPAA-compliant, ensuring patient privacy, and is built on a user-friendly platform developed in partnership with Healow. What does the telehealth component look like and how does it fit into the bigger approach?

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Compliancy Group

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Richard Tytus, associate clinical professor at McMaster University and cofounder and medical director of Banty, a vendor of a HIPAA-compliant video platform used for telemedicine. A lot of the time, I feel this hesitation is a result of some doctors feeling intimidated by the technology.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Since the pandemic, the Mount Alvernia IT team has created 13 applications, including the Staff Health System (which was initially a contact tracing solution), Doctors Directory, Medical Records Tracking, and Electronic Meal Ordering. Furthermore, enterprise IT teams can enhance security assurance by applying enterprise SAST solutions."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

"As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless. As the senators noted in press statements, at more than 25 years old, HIPAA covers patient-doctor interactions but does not typically protect health data patients record on those tools – potentially putting the information at risk.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

"Our ability to step up and commit to treating data in a HIPAA-compliant manner opens up a number of new avenues for us to bring our expertise and competitive pricing to new partners," said System1 President of Commerce and Travel, Stewart Marlborough.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In the extensive world of rules and regulations related to HIPAA, it’s crucial to have a clear grasp of specific rules for both legal and ethical reasons. ” This rule serves as a central reference point for organizations that are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2023

While it is not a HIPAA-covered entity with a business associate agreement, a number of medical practice management applications integrate with Mailchimp, and a number of mail marketing service providers for doctors and providers work with Malchimp, Constant Contact and other email marketing platforms.

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