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What is Digital Communication: Comprehensive Explanation with Examples

Viseven

And patients gladly take the opportunity to access their online medical records — 54% reviewed their records at least three times during 2022 , compared to 38% in 2020. Ensure HIPAA compliance : Protect patient data by using secure and compliant communication channels.

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HHS bulletin clarifies when pixel tracker use may violate HIPAA

Fierce Healthcare

HHS bulletin clarifies when pixel tracker use may violate HIPAA. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 15:21.

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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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Amazon shuts down support for Alexa HIPAA-compliant programs for hospitals, payers

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon shuts down support for Alexa HIPAA-compliant programs for hospitals, payers. Thu, 12/08/2022 - 06:20.

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

pharmaphorum

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

pharmaphorum

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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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.