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Comply with Privacy Rights to Avoid Unconsented Intimate Exams

AIHC

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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Is Verbal Consent Permitted for HIPAA?

Compliancy Group

When understanding what practices are permissible under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), it makes sense to plan for various contingencies. For example, if a patient cannot provide written consent for releasing their protected health information (PHI), is verbal consent permitted for HIPAA?

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Your Organization’s Guide to Handling HIPAA Documents

Compliancy Group

A critical job of compliance officers is handling HIPAA documentation, which makes it possible to provide employee training, outline correct procedures, and prove compliance with healthcare regulations. Patients must acknowledge with a signature that theyve received and understood this information.

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Mind over Machine: Navigating the Legal and Ethical Frontier of Neurotech

Bill of Health

traditional privacy laws, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), were conceived for a bygone era of paper records and siloed databases, before neural data came into the picture. BCIs, however, challenge that binary categorization, raising a host of ethical concerns. In the U.S.,

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Empowering Patients’ Rights in Hospice Training

American Medical Compliance

Right to Informed Consent and Autonomy The endorsement of shared decision-making and patient decision aids by major professional societies represents a significant shift in the concept of informed consent. The current ethical standard of informed consent does not ensure that patients are adequately informed.

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How Healthcare Communication Platforms Can Harness Generative AI in a HIPAA-Compliant Way

Healthcare IT Today

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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Safeguarding Patient Privacy Through EMR Compliance

Compliancy Group

When anyone in your organization transmits electronic medical records (EMRs), they must obtain prior authorization from the patient and do so per the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Understanding the HIPAA rules and the security steps to take can help protect patient information and maintain EMR compliance.