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When HIPAA Becomes Criminal

Healthcare IT Today

The hospital may be penalized for its HIPAA compliance based on the investigation caused by the alleged illegal activities of its rogue employees. Harvey allegedly received patient information from Kirby Dandridge, 38, Sylvia Taylor, 43, Kara Thompson, 30, Melanie Russell, 41, and Adrianna Taber, 26, who were all charged with violating HIPAA.

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How Healthcare Communication Platforms Can Harness Generative AI in a HIPAA-Compliant Way

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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HIPAA and Machine Learning at Loyal

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Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. I find Loyal an interesting case of how to adopt common machine learning and data analysis to unique conditions. Loyal also tracks patient responses and suggests new topics to the clinician.

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How to Overcome HIPAA Myths to Enhance the Protection of Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

It’s safe to assume that securing protected healthcare information (PHI) would be a top priority for healthcare IT and security professionals, even if HIPAA didn’t require it. In the healthcare industry, HIPAA provides an additional layer of risk management complexity. That offshore support can still be HIPAA compliant.

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Featured Health IT Jobs – Senior Epic Application Analyst

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This position requires independent decision-making, problem solving, project management, leadership, training, systems and build analysis, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis! We are committed to equal opportunity employment.

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Featured Health IT Job: PACS Administrator at Natividad

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This incumbent (fully experienced journey-level classification) will perform the full scope of software application programming and analysis work with minimal supervision, including design and program development tasks. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

Healthcare IT Today

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.