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How policymakers could tweak HIPAA to better protect abortion records

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WASHINGTON — Patient privacy law offers little protection if law enforcement requests a person’s medical records — an issue that’s fueled concern as states impose restrictions on abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Jacobs recently worked with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)

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Transgender patients sue VUMC for providing records to state attorney general

Fierce Healthcare

The system said it was required by law to comply and that doing so does not violate HIPAA. The system said it was required by law to comply and that doing so does not violate HIPAA.

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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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Not unlike the financial industry, these institutions still exchange patient information via fax machines. 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?

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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. We then pass that information out to all the other systems.

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

Pharmaceutical Technology

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.