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The Thematic Roadmap for AHIP 2024: What the Health Insurance Conference Will Cover

Jane Sarashon

Health insurance plans make mainstream media news every week, whether coverage deals with the cost of a plan, the cost of out-of-network care, prior authorizations, or cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, among other front-page issues. Embracing workforce well-being — in and outside of health care.

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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better

HIT Consultant

Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them. Hospitals and healthcare systems can do better. Sharing data through faxing and CDs is still very common.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Nearly all (97%) hospitals and roughly almost two-thirds (65%) of physician practices are now capable of enabling patient access. Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015.

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Norton Healthcare Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over BlackCat Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

Norton Healthcare, a Kentucky-based operator of more than 140 clinics and hospitals in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, is facing a class action lawsuit over a May 2023 cyberattack and data breach. District Court on behalf of plaintiff Lanisha Malone and similarly situated individuals who had their sensitive data stolen in the attack.

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Alabama Healthcare Provider Announces 441,000-Record Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

The Birmingham, AL, Heart Hospital, Cardiovascular Associates, has recently announced that unauthorized individuals gained access to certain parts of its network between November 28, 2022, and December 5, 2022, and removed files containing patient information.

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3 Compelling Reasons — Beyond the Law — to Expand Consumer Access to Personal Records

HIT Consultant

Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine , and data analytics has brought about new challenges and opportunities. HIPAA (1996): The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established strict standards for patient data privacy and security.