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Healthcare Data Security Breach: What to Do If Your Records Have Been Hacked

Scrubs

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

Faster TimetoMarket In a health insurance policy management system project, a client achieved a fourmonth launch timeline by outsourcing development and QA to a dedicated vendor. In 2018, contract workers outnumbered fulltime employees, highlighting Googles reliance on external expertise.

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New GP contract: a step forward or more of the same?

Practice Index

The funding looks good on paper, but once you factor in National Insurance and minimum wage increases, theres very little left to make a real difference, said one Practice Manager. uplift, overall GP funding remains hundreds of millions of pounds short of 2018/19 levels in real terms. Thats another job Ill add to my to-do list!

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

The HIPAA Journal

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. In 2023, 79.7%

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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. In the U.S., Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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Diagnosis: Stress, Anxiety and Anger – the 2022 Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report

Health Populi

Another one-third were concerned about this clinical claim being on their insurance record, one-fourth worried about colleagues finding out about their burnout or depression, and 22% concerned the medical profession would “shun me.” “Mechanisms to enhance health care workers’ sense of value are needed.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.