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How policymakers could tweak HIPAA to better protect abortion records

STAT

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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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

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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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Transgender patients sue VUMC for providing records to state attorney general

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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

pharmaphorum

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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Data privacy concerns don’t hinder digital health app usage

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The juli platform itself aggregates and analyses data from electronic medical records, smartphones, wearable devices, and the environment, as well as patient responses based on between three and five daily questions and bi-weekly clinically validated, disease-specific questionnaires.

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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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