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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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Syllable Corporation Announces Purchase of Actium Health

Healthcare IT Today

By using HIPAA-compliant AI and natural language processing (NLP) to understand patient needs, Syllable’s Patient Assistant integrates with a health system’s EHR and automates more than 70% of hospital calls, ensures 35%+ more callers reach their destination, and frees up staff to handle 30% more new appointment calls. “As

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Profitable Digital Health Platform Healthie Closes on $16M to Enable the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

Healthie’s scalable platform supports digital health companies’ rapid growth while also improving the patient experience and overall health outcomes. Founded in 2016 by Erica Jain and Cavan Klinsky, who dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania to launch the company, Healthie had previously raised $1.9 About Healthie.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in Tennessee

MedTrainer

The resources provided by these Tennessee state agencies are essential for promoting public health, ensuring access to healthcare, supporting healthcare professionals, and enhancing overall health outcomes for the residents of Tennessee. Significant changes were made to the program as of July 1, 2016.

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The Seemingly Limitless Potential of Blockchain in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

As he put it: “To facilitate better health outcomes for patients, sharing medical records amongst different health systems is becoming popular. those impacting 500 or more records) between July 2021 and June 2022, according to the HIPAA Journal. Moreover, there were 692 large data breaches (i.e.,

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CMS Includes MAOs in Data Exchange and Prior Authorization Requirements

Healthcare Law Blog

Citing the ongoing impact that prior authorization has on patient care, health system costs, and administrative burdens for providers, CMS seeks to streamline the prior authorization process in the Proposed Rule by requiring the following changes. Identifying Previous and Concurrent Payors and Opt In.

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

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.