The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc.

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Business Associate HIPAA Unit Organization and Environment Hospital 111

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction.

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Insurance HIPAA Patient Care Billing 102

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Sandhills used a vendor (Netgain Technologies) for electronic storage of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems. Ford received medical services at Sandhills in 2018 but ceased being a patient of Sandhills before the November ransomware attack.

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HIPAA Billing Appointments Scheduling 52

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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HIPAA Billing Hospital Medication 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Does the U.S.

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Appointments Insurance HIPAA Billing 95

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” health care. Out-of-network costs?

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Collaboration Hospital Best Practices HIPAA 66

Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

AI and Machine Learning in medical billing: Streamlining processes In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to continue its upward trajectory in the healthcare sector. Billing processes should align with these value-based models to ensure fair compensation for high-quality care.

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Billing Communication Medication Appointments 52