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New HIPAA Security Rule and Enforcement Coming in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to increase civil money penalties for HIPAA violations, increase HIPAA enforcement, and conduct proactive audits.

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

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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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Unlocking Healthcare’s Mobile Future: HIPAA-Compliant BYOD

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That’s why we were particularly interested in this session at HIMSS 2024 that looked at how to create a HIPAA-Compliant BYOD program which balanced the security needs of a healthcare organization while still meeting the workflow needs of their users. Million in HIPAA fines. Plus, healthcare has up to $1.5

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When HIPAA Becomes Criminal

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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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HIPAA and Machine Learning at Loyal

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I talked to Abhi Sharma, chief product officer at Loyal , about how they do machine learning. Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. Loyal also tracks patient responses and suggests new topics to the clinician.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. advertising platforms).

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

Healthcare IT Today

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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