The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

The file review confirmed that the information likely compromised in the incident includes names, dates of birth, medical information, health insurance information, payment card information, and Social Security numbers. The post Orthodontic Practice Management Software Provider Announces Data Breach appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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Valant

JULY 29, 2024

Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. This code is acceptable to insurers when used to describe a marked change in mental health status not attributable to other factors. Clinicians should only use the R41.82

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. have transformed into health consumers since the advent of high-deductible health insurance embedded in so-called “consumer-directed plans.” health citizens are with respect to their medical information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. This law shares many elements with the GDPR.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The big data point in this study for me was the one-fourth of Americans were “very concerned” that an organization would use their online search information against them to prevent them from getting health insurance.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

The first instance was in October 2020 when a patient was brought in by ambulance after being found by law enforcement preparing to jump off a bridge. The patients insurance information was obtained; however, Resurrection failed to obtain an EKG, perform a pain assessment, and obtain a medical history.

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Health Prime

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Billing systems must be programmed to edit incoming data to create clean claims and efficiently file claims with all major insurance carriers. the Covid changes in 2020) How many interfaces are supported? Ensure your potential partner is well-versed in the latest compliance standards, particularly HIPAA regulations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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Tests Patient Experience HIPAA Insurance 93

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Since it includes patients’ data or ePHI (Protected Health Information), it’s essential to encompass HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules during the e-prescription software development process. HIPAA regulations safeguard ePHI on physical, technical, and administrative levels.

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

They must maintain privacy by following the HIPAA compliance guidelines. Applicants can also go through NHA CCMA exam questions 2020 to get equipped with the exam pattern. Confidentiality- Medical profession comes with a lot of personal data that should be kept confidential.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami. As a result, most U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Planned Parenthood has now confirmed that the compromised data included names, addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, health insurance information, and/or clinical information, including provider name(s), date(s) of service, diagnosis information, treatment information, and/or prescription information.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Back in 1996 a law was passed that was supposed to make it easy to move your health insurance from employer to employer. It was called HIPAA (the first 3 letters stand for Health Insurance Portability–you didn’t know that, did you!). And no it didn’t help make insurance portable. Almost certainly not.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. The appointment scheduler can link patient records including insurance data, treatment history, and other records. at any given time.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

That purchaser takes the form of both the employer-sponsor of health care insurance for workers, and the patient-as-payer herself. Retail health care has improved access for vulnerable populations, as well – for uninsured people, under-insured folks with health insurance, immigrants, among them.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Aside from last year when there was an atypically high number of data breaches in February (67), February data breaches have been reported in similar numbers since 2020, with between 46 and 49 breaches reported each February. Large data breaches are incidents that involve the protected health information (PHI) of 500 or more individuals.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 By JEFF GOLDSMITH The late 1990s crash of HMOs opened the door to a major consolidation of the health insurance market controlled largely by national and super-regional health plans. HIPAA markedly accelerated the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) in healthcare, to the great advantage of health insurers.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2025

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement to resolve an alleged violation of the risk analysis implementation specification of the HIPAA Security Rule. OCR was informed of the data breach on December 17, 2020. All seven of the enforcement actions include penalties for risk analysis failures.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

This can result in an unauthorized disclosure of health data that is prohibited under HIPAA, and more seriously, can put patient safety at risk. million in 2020 and the healthcare industry more than $6.7 It is common for medical records to be overlaid, where multiple patients records are merged into a single record. billion each year.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020. Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness.

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