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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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STAT+: Federal judge rules in favor of hospital lobby in privacy lawsuit

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A federal judge has sided with a powerful hospital lobby in a legal battle with regulators over hospitals’ use of third-party website trackers to gather details about visitors’ online behavior. North Texas U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Google strikes deal with Mayo Clinic to comb patient records using generative AI

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The technology is designed to function like a super-charged Google search for health records, allowing hospitals to find and link information about patients to improve care and research.

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5 HIPAA Compliance Tips For Healthcare Professionals

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Healthcare professionals who comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will benefit by removing the risk of breaching the HIPAA rules. They will also benefit from the continued business they’ll get from hospitals that require compliant professionals. Their patients would feel secure with them.

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STAT+: ‘No data more personal’: Patients, digital health players weigh in on the FTC’s data privacy plan

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“The FTC is seeking to put developers of these kind of apps on notice that they, too, have responsibilities to protect health data,” said Angie Matney, counsel focused on data privacy at the law firm Reed Smith.

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Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

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That’s more than double recent counts, mostly spurred by a surge in hacking and ransomware attacks on health care groups regulated by HIPAA. As many as 116 million people were hit by large health data breaches this year, according to records from the HHS Office for Civil Rights as of December 21. Read the rest…

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2023 predictions and challenges in the healthcare business

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With patients increasingly relying on online and seamless care, provider organisations must consider incremental technology adoption and how to communicate electronically in a HIPAA-compliant manner.