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MARCH 7, 2023

Health insurance agents became covered under HIPAA with the HITECH Act of 2009. The inclusion of insurance agents was a response to the increasing use of electronic health records and the need to safeguard patients’ medical information.

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Natalia Mazina

JULY 28, 2022

While this is not a new case, it serves as a good reminder that even a small healthcare provider is subject to potential monetary penalties under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). We have prepared HIPAA policies and procedures specifically tailored to independent pharmacies.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 7, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is US legislation that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The article What Are HIPAA Compliant Storage Requirements?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

For the top performers, aiming for agentic workflows, these initiatives will only be possible not only with high data governance maturity but with flexible and agile human-in-the-loop workflows, given the supervision necessity of these systems. The following are their answers.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The HIPAA definition of Covered Entities is generally explained as health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers that conduct electronic transactions for which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed standards. 2) A health care clearinghouse. (3)

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 30, 2023

The National HIPAA Summit is the leading forum on healthcare EDI, privacy, breach notification, confidentiality, data security, and HIPAA compliance, and the deadline for registration for the Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit is fast approaching.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2019

Magellan Health, a healthcare payer organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, needed to address adherence to oral medication therapy. Caroline Carney, chief medical officer at Magellan Health Rx management. “For me, the greatest driving factor here is providing support to ensure the best health outcome. THE PROBLEM.

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Total HIPAA

JUNE 21, 2022

While much of the anti-malware technology we have to protect us from hackers has become increasingly more sophisticated, so have attackers’ methods. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), incidents of hacking affecting 500 people or more increased by 45% from 2019 to 2020. According to the U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

HIPAA breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals which occurred during 2021 must be reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Reporting HIPAA Breaches: When Should I Contact HHS? Reporting HIPAA Breaches: When Should I Contact HHS?

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 11, 2022

In one of the largest breaches reported in 2022 so far, SuperCare Health suffered a hacking incident affecting 318,379 patients. However, it took SuperCare Health until February 2022 to discover the incident had potentially compromised that patient information. What Do We Know About the SuperCare Health Hack?

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2025

Having a website has become standard for healthcare organizations and service providers. If your website collects and uses patient data, you must satisfy specific HIPAA website requirements. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces these regulations and imposes penalties for non-compliance.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 22, 2022

22 HIPAA-regulated entities reported breaches of 10,000 or more healthcare records in February. The largest breach of the month was reported by Morley Companies, which was a hacking incident that resulted in the exposure and possible theft of the protected health information of 521,046 members of its health plan.

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Verisys

MARCH 6, 2025

Technologies continue to transform the healthcare industrythe da Vinci Surgical Robot performs precise movements that enable minimally invasive surgeries, the CyberKnife delivers targeted radiotherapy, and smart devices provide practitioners with instantaneous updates to patient health. What Is AI in Healthcare Compliance?

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won't get left behind. At UVA, she said, "we saw a greater than 9,000% increase in the use of telehealth. Tina Smith, D-Minn.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

and was prevented from using bots and screen scraping to get access to patient data. Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. APIs such as promoted by Amazon.com in retail were simply missing in health care. Progress has been slow.

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Total HIPAA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If the Covered Entity or Business Associate discovers additional information later, they should submit updates as indicated on the HHS form. Definition of HIPAA Breaches A simple oversight or event may qualify as a HIPAA breach. What if My Business Associate Logged the HIPAA Breach?

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 15, 2024

To become certified, please visit us at: American Medical Compliance (AMC). Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) issued a landmark report that highlighted the growing concerns about recordkeeping practices in the emerging computer age. Reach out for other courses by visiting the AMC Course Library.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 21, 2023

A study published in Health Affairs suggests 98.6% A study published in Health Affairs suggests 98.6% Following these discoveries, several hospitals and health systems reported breaches of protected health information, some of which involved impermissible disclosures of millions of patient records.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry. Important Disclosure: Flare Capital was a significant investor in Iora Health and had a board seat. By Michael Greeley. Last week’s $3.9

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 23, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has announced the launch of the Digital Health Security (DIGIHEALS) project which seeks to improve the electronic infrastructure of the U.S. healthcare industry. The DIGIHEALS project comes when the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Mike Semel, President and Chief Security Officer of Semel Consulting The Ascension health system data breach can’t be easily separated from the United Healthcare Change Health breach that recently caused a huge financial and medical impact across the healthcare sector and may have breached the personal information for a third of Americans.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In early December of 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has issued a $548,625 civil monetary penalty (CMP) against Childrens Hospital Colorado (CHC), for the latters HIPAA compliance trip-ups: violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 18, 2022

A small breach can be a simple release of information (ROI) process error involving a patient’s protected health information (PHI). Most of those disclosure points occur outside the health information management (HIM) department in areas where individuals are not trained in PHI disclosure management.

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HealthIT Answers

JANUARY 10, 2024

By Christy Jones - Hospitals, health systems, and medical practices are increasingly aware that Google Analytics does not satisfy HIPAA requirements. The US Department of Health and Human Services released guidance bringing IP addresses under the umbrella of protected health information.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 20, 2023

Our monthly data breach reports are based on data breaches of 500 or more records that have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) each month. The data collected was used for analytics purposes but was transferred to the providers of the code.

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Total HIPAA

AUGUST 2, 2023

To ensure the protection of sensitive information related to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) patients, the US Department of Health and Human Services and The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS and SAMHSA) collaborated to create the HIPAA Drug and Alcohol Records Law, also known as 42 CFR Part 2.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Federal guidelines like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outline the responsibility of healthcare providers when it comes to creating, analyzing, and distributing Protected Health Information (PHI). Why is Healthcare Data Security Important?

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MAY 19, 2022

Insurance agents who handle protected health information (PHI) are required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). One way to ensure compliance is to undergo a HIPAA compliance audit. It’s important for insurance agents to be prepared for a HIPAA compliance audit.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced the resolution of three investigations and one matter related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. OCR imposed a $50,000 civil money penalty.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re a Covered Entity or someone who is affected by HIPAA laws and regulations, you know as well as anyone that a data breach can have serious repercussions on your organization. This breach leaked information belonging to more than 275,000 people, including their names, dates of service, addresses, and treatment info.

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AIHC

APRIL 10, 2024

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Banner Health had to pay a $1.25 As a result, almost 3 million people had their information exposed. This was a violation of HIPAA requirements based on the security rule. The purpose of the security rule is to protect consumers’ health information from cybersecurity threats like this one.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 22, 2023

Insurance agents who handle protected health information (PHI) are required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Failure to comply with HIPAA regulations can result in severe consequences for insurance agents and their clients. million per year for each violation.

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American Medical Compliance

JUNE 17, 2022

In March of 2022, the US Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) released four new enforcement actions. The Department took these actions against healthcare workers when they took place in medical practices that led to HIPAA violations. HIPAA Violations in Dental Settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds. Finally, the current state of tech needs to be updated.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a newsletter on cybersecurity awareness and how best to protect the privacy and security of confidential data.

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