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Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access Is a Win-Win for Patients and HIE Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, there are also financial concerns to consider, too. If you’re a patient and you have a very serious diagnosis or for which standard-of-care therapies don’t exist, determining eligibility for clinical trials depends on fast access to computable medical records. The monetary penalties for noncompliance could add up quickly.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Health Populi

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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