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5 HIPAA Compliance Tips For Healthcare Professionals

Pharma Mirror

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.

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Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

STAT

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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Wearables: managing complexities in data privacy and consent in healthcare tech

Pharmaceutical Technology

Devices such as insulin pumps, heart pacemakers, and inhalers can track patient data in real-time and transmit to the user’s phone, an app, or their doctor, making the data immediately accessible, and often keeping the patient out of the hospital. However, this presents challenges for healthcare companies.

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Challenges & Opportunities in Emerging Digital Health Technologies

ISPE

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of DHTs through the increased reliance on telemedicine services and remote patient monitoring programs to ensure patient safety and triage scarce hospital resources. FAQs on Telehealth and HIPAA during the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency.” IMDRF SaMD Risk Categorization.