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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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The Institute of Medicine first advocated a shift from paper-based to electronic medical records in 1992 , yet, only 13% of U.S. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant? HIPAA does not specifically prohibit using and sharing open protocol-based software. Many are still making the transition.

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Understanding the current and future state of complex health data protection laws

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Compliance in the US – HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covers several areas relating to health data, with one of the key requirements being a set of standards – the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule – to protect sensitive PHI from being disclosed without the patient’s consent.