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What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019?

Electronic Health Reporter

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a bill passed initially in 1996, consists of a set of rules and regulations that protect the privacy and security of health information and provide individuals with certain rights to their health information. The article What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019?

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Seattle Plastic Surgery Practice to Pay $5 Million to Resolve False Review and Illegal NDA Lawsuit

The HIPAA Journal

A Seattle, WA, plastic surgery practice has been ordered to pay a financial penalty of $5 million to the Office of the Washington Attorney General to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA), and the federal Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA).

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. You know about CVS buying Aetna late last year, bringing together the pharmacy-cum-healthcare services operation with a health insurance plan.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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