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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

STAT

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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MultiCare community hospital agrees to HIPAA settlement over 'snooping' security guards

Fierce Healthcare

A Washington community hospital is paying settlement fees and implementing a corrective action plan after a Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights investigation caught numerous security | Twenty-three emergency department security guards at MultiCare's Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital were reported to have used their login credentials (..)

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Healthcare data management: resolving consent, compliance, and privacy issues

Pharmaceutical Technology

But if healthcare providers cannot match these profiles to determine the patient's identity and link it to their medical records, it can delay treatments. Breaches of HIPAA in the US can result in fines of up to $50,000. Grouping and matching for medical data.

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