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

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These data breaches have affected millions of patients, putting their sensitive healthcare information at risk. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year. In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised across 503 breaches, which was three times the amount seen in 2017.

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Roles Involved in Prior Auths: Responsibilities & Education

ACMA Blog

Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) : A CDS can help in the PA process by accurately documenting patient records. Accurate patient documentation is crucial for prior authorizations as it ensures that healthcare providers have comprehensive and precise information to support the medical necessity of a procedure or treatment.

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Mastering Prior Authorization Roles: Responsibilities and Training Demands Explored

ACMA Blog

Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS): A CDS can help in the PA process by accurately documenting patient records. Accurate patient documentation is crucial for prior authorizations as it ensures that healthcare providers have comprehensive and precise information to support the medical necessity of a procedure or treatment.

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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

That’s not a typo in the title: Ciitizen (spelled with two “i’s”) launched a The Patient Record Scorecard on 14th August. The Scorecard was developed to gauge the progress (and lack thereof) of patient information access afforded by peoples’ health care providers. “The Why is this so important?

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New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

The HIPAA Journal

Individuals suffering from substance abuse disorder (SUD) must also be able to get the treatment they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has meant changes needed to be made to 42 CFR Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations. 2018 ended up being a record year for HIPAA enforcement.

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