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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway? visits per 100 member-years.

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Dock Health Brings HIPAA-compliant Task Management and Workflow Automation to Direct Primary Care Catalyst, Hint Health

Digital Health Global

Addressing the exponential growth of direct primary care (DPC) organizations – an increase of 241% from 2017 to 2021 – Hint helps clinicians manage the unique complexities of a membership-based primary care model. Founded in 2013 by Zak Holdsworth and Graham Melcher, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM.

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Florida Provider To Pay $85,000 To Settle HIPAA Right of Access Claim

Healthcare IT Today

For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA.

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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA protects patients by limiting who can access PHI, when they can access it, and how they use it.

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OCR settles 2nd HIPAA right of access case with Florida primary care practice

FierceHealthIT

Florida-based Korunda Medical must pay $85,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services for failing to give a patient timely access to medical records. The settlement is the second enforcement action taken under the Right of Access Initiative launched earlier this year to combat information blocking at healthcare facilities.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.