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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

Holding health care back is the lack of digitization in general, and then the under-investment in user-centered design to engage and then retain patients beyond an initial download or visit to a patient portal. Claims — that’s the paper-based workflow that eats up some of the $billion U.S. It still does.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. In 2021, the Patient Access API, which allows patients to download their data through their preferred third-party app, became available to healthcare beneficiaries.

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Patient Data Exposed in Laptop Theft Incidents

HIPAA Journal

When employees are dismissed, their network account, email, and access to clinical systems and electronic medical records are terminated, as was the case with this dismissal; however, some patient data was stored on the laptop.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Are there internal office policies regarding no downloading from unknown web pages? If you are a Practice Manager, Administrator or owner of a small medical organization and responsible for overseeing HITECH and HIPAA compliance, consider online training.

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Security Breaches in Healthcare in 2023

HIPAA Journal

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Are there internal office policies regarding no downloading from unknown web pages? If you are a Practice Manager, Administrator or owner of a small medical organization and responsible for overseeing HITECH and HIPAA compliance, consider online training.

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Is Sharing EHR Passwords a Problem?

AIHC

Prevalence of Sharing Access Credentials in Electronic Medical Records To summarize an abstract published by PMC (Public Med Central) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, it was found that to prevent data leakage, many countries have created regulations regarding medical data accessibility.

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