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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

STAT

While the news media in 2022 focused on hospitals’ billions of dollars of losses , negative operating margins, and other daunting post-pandemic challenges , a set of costly modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services mostly flew under the radar. The already beleaguered U.S.

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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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billion in a Series D funding round in April 2022. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant? HIPAA does not specifically prohibit using and sharing open protocol-based software. The discussion around how to integrate an open-protocol approach into a complicated system governed by HIPAA has been going on for years.

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Data privacy concerns don’t hinder digital health app usage

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With the HLTH 2022 event now well underway, digital health industry leaders all gathered together to attend in Las Vegas this week, the juli survey results reveal consumer responses to be more varied than one would have expected when it comes to data privacy. Of those who were afflicted by anxiety, 73% also battled with depression.

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Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West

Drug Channels

September 14-15, 2022 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina | San Diego, CA www.informaconnect.com/hub-specialty-pharmacy-west. Copyright © 2006-2022 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West. Delivered as a Hybrid Event. Drug Channels, or any of its employees. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Cybersecurity in pharma: Securing the future

Pharmaceutical Technology

Cybersecurity challenges As per a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2022 survey, there is a need for greater awareness on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and data privacy along with other measures.

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How Pharmacists Can Manage Stress and Maximize Efficiency

Digital Pharmacist

With a HIPAA-compliant centralized platform, you can also view all patient conversations and send auto-populated messages. This automated system can help minimize the amount of time your staff has to spend on the phone, enabling patients to refill and transfer prescriptions and get essential pharmacy information. Secure 2-way messaging.

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COVID-19, Flu, and RSV in 2023: What Pharmacists Should Know

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Mandy Cohen, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During 2022-2023, flu and RSV were part of a “tripledemic,” alongside COVID-19. Surges of RSV cases in the United States occurred much earlier than usual, starting in late fall 2022 instead of midwinter.