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What Happens if You Violate HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for a practitioner who wonders, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

She said, “of course it can,” as the day’s content proved out. But the non-traditional data bytes (detailed in the Cracked Labs graphic above) that industry, and especially retail at large, are mashing up aren’t usually covered by HIPAA, unless they reside in HIPAA-covered entities’ information systems.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

Of course, few have more of your data already than those very same organizations and, thank goodness, they are there to also help us get access to care and get it paid for. There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Give people’s data to a big insurer? How could you?”. Not really.

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

Health Populi

The last chapter (8) of HealthConsuming considers whether Americans can become “health citizens.” ” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take.