HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – A new report from the Commonwealth Fund reveals that despite significant progress in expanding health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of Americans still lack adequate and affordable healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The companies say they will use automated processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning software on a cloud platform to digitize healthcare claims and improve the accuracy and timeliness of billing information. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Navigating the healthcare economy.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Nonetheless, her situation can be informative because the reasons she cited for not buying coverage — preexisting conditions and cost — are among the things the Affordable Care Act directly addresses. But Retton provided no details on what kind of health insurance she shopped for, or when. 1 and runs until Jan.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2024

HealthEquity has confirmed a breach of its SharePoint data, which included protected health information. Data breaches have also been reported by Kairos Health Arizona and Ambulnz. The extent of the breach and the types of information involved has bot yet been publicly disclosed.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Details of the ransomware attack that exposed PHI, and that may have resulted in unauthorized parties obtaining protected health information, are provided below. The demographic information, including the names, social security numbers, addresses, driver license numbers, and birthdates, may also constitute ePHI.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Written by Gabriella Neff, RHIA, CHA, CHC, CHRC, CHPC This past year, in 2024, revisions were made to clarify hospital guidelines related to informed consent specifically addressing UIEs (unconsented intimate exams) to patients while under anesthesia. OCR recently issued an FAQ focusing on this right. [6]

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

Columbia Eye Clinic, South Carolina Columbia Eye Clinic, a medical and surgical ophthalmology practice with four locations in Columbia and Lexington in South Carolina, announced a data security incident on March 14, 2025, involving the exposure of patients’ protected health information.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Senator Maggie Hassan and a panel discussion moderated by Sarah Kliff of The New York Times, spotlighted state cost containment policies and employer strategies to inform the federal policy process concerning ESI, which covers almost half of all Americans. The event, featuring remarks from U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2025

The account was reviewed, and on January 24, 2025, it was confirmed that emails in the account contained the protected health information of patients of Beacon Health Systems Three Rivers Health Hospital in Michigan. Notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals on February 10, 2025.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new technologies that collect, store, and transmit health information, including wearable devices, smart devices, and health and wellness apps. The post Senator Seeks Information on How to Improve Health Data Privacy appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

A healthcare information breach, such as hacking or an insider threat, invades the privacy of patients who depend on your organizations protection. A healthcare information breach is the disclosure, sharing, or access of a patients protected health information (PHI) without written consent.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2023

The company also surveyed more than 7,000 consumers across 28 countries about their health insurance experiences and compared the data. "61% of patients feel that healthcare providers need to do a better job at listening to their feedback, and 69% said the same about health insurance companies," the researchers said.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance. There are currently 22 apps approved for reimbursement, of which almost 50% are focused on mental health.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights about a data breach that involved unauthorized access to the protected health information of up to 173,430 individuals. CDHA Management, LLC and Spark DSO, LLC, which do business as Chord Specialty Dental Partners, have recently notified the U.S.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 1, 2025

CIS vs. ISO 27001: Differences and Overlaps The Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls framework comprises 20 controls that inform an organizations cybersecurity measures. Therefore, CIS mapping to ISO 27001 covers all your bases regarding information privacy and security.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents. “And that’s just not OK.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In January 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights received 70 reports of large-scale data breaches (affecting more than 500 patients) in the healthcare sector, impacting the protected health information of approximately 2,768,422 patients.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 31, 2023

Data privacy is about more than keeping personal information safe and secure, says Dr. Eric Liederman, Kaiser Permanente's director of medical informatics – it's an essential component for establishing trust with patients that healthcare organizations take personal safety seriously.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, has signed Senate Bill 696 into law, which expands the definition of personal information under the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act that warrants individual notifications to be issued in the event of a data breach. The updated law will take effect on May 2, 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

The file review confirmed that the types of data compromised in the cyberattack included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, medical information, and health insurance information.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Dubai Health Authority ( DHA ) and its health insurance regulatory body have launched a “first-of-its-kind” digital-led programme that is expected to form the foundation for value-based healthcare adoption in the emirate, it has been announced.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Discover: Simplifying Eligibility Verification Nirvana’s Discover technology offers a groundbreaking solution for retrieving complete eligibility information using only basic patient data. For providers, it significantly reduces claim denials, easing the burden on finance and RCM teams.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The doctors will review the information before saving it in electronic medical records (EMRs) and transferring it to other digital health systems, i.e., e-pharmacy or digital health insurance. AI is only as good as the data used to inform the LLM. AI models rely on high-quality data to make accurate predictions.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

transactions each year for more than 347,000 healthcare providers and 8,000 health insurance payers. Because both patients and clinicians can access real-time health data with cloud technology, they can treat their patients more effectively, he said. TriZetto's healthcare enterprise portfolio process 2.6B

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

Numotion said it has no reason to believe that the accounts were accessed to obtain personal information, and no evidence has been found to indicate any information in the accounts has been stolen and misused. That email breach involved the protected health information of 2,319 individuals.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most Ontarian residents receive medically necessary services under the single-payer, provincially funded Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), which includes primary and specialty physician services, emergency department visits, hospital stays, laboratory and diagnostic testing, and other community healthcare services.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

by Rebekah Ninan A recent lawsuit in the Southern District of New York has alleged that the health insurance company Anthem Blue and Cross Blue Shield violated state laws and committed fraud by maintaining “ghost networks” of mental health providers.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2025

What You Should Know: – Venteur , a personalized health technology platform secures $20M in Series A funding round led by Informed Ventures and American Family Venture s, with strategic investment from Morgan Health , Catalyst by Wellstar, and Ingeborg Investment s. Existing investors also participated in the round.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 22, 2023

on member satisfaction, trust, communication, the rising costs of healthcare and more, and found that 40% of its respondents blamed health insurance companies for the high costs of healthcare delivery. THE LARGER TREND Last week, HealthEdge released results from a survey of more than 2,800 healthcare consumers in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Even the 90% of Americans who have some form of health insurance find themselves struggling to keep up with their medical expenses. For example, AI can compile and analyze medical histories, narrow down potential diagnoses, and then pass the information to a doctor, who can confirm or adjust the prognosis.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2025

Todays Cumbersome Insurance Eligibility/Verification Challenges Patients seeking mental health services frequently encounter obstacles such as unreliable provider directories and unexpected insurance denials, creating significant barriers to timely and effective treatment.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The moderator was Dr Nasser Aljehani, Model of Care Lead, Second Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia. 'The Enterprise Taxonomy: Analytics Population and Public Health Interoperability Strategic Planning Workflow Digital Health Emerging Technologies Data and Information Care Organizational Governance Process Technology.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

The data review was completed on February 13, 2025, and confirmed that names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical information, treatment information, healthcare provider information, and health insurance information had been exposed.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2023

consumers spend 12 million hours a week on the phone with health insurers, more than one-third of consumers have been sent to debt collections because of a billing issue between their healthcare provider and health insurer. Healthcare consumers experience a lot of friction along their healthcare journeys. Not only do U.S.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

The main federal health privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) applies only to “covered entities” like health insurers, claims- processing clearinghouses, and health care providers and their business associates, and only to a subset of protected health care information.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Cryptography: Quantum-Safe Patient Data Sharing and Storage: Quantum technologies such as Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) can secure patient data, safeguard human identity, and provide secure channels for transmitting sensitive health information.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Further, many institutions use different health information systems, complicating sharing and aggregating data for research purposes. The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates strict data privacy and security measures for AI systems handling protected health information (PHI).

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