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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

HIT Consultant

Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. We leveraged our experience executing transactions, extensive network, and market analysis from our 16-year history of advising and selectively investing across the ever-evolving Health IT and Digital Health sectors to gather key market information.

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Health Provider News – August 19, 2022

Hall Render

Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. House approves sweeping climate, tax, health care package. Joint Commission’s New Accreditation Standards Tackle Health Disparities. CALIFORNIA.

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100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt

Kaiser Health News

Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. including 41% of adults ? The picture is bleak.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. CVS building out an SDOH platform , collaborating with Unite US for the effort.

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Should You Worry About Data From Your Period-Tracking App Being Used Against You?

Kaiser Health News

use period-tracking apps to plan ahead, track when they are ovulating, and monitor other health effects. They were expressing concerns about the privacy of this information — especially for people who live in states with strict limits on abortion — and how it might be used against them. “Now.” We asked the experts.

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – January 28, 2022

Hall Render

FDA halts use of antibody drugs that don’t work vs. omicron. Safety-net hospitals face the worst of the US’ nursing shortage. State health officer discusses Alabama’s COVID-19 peak. Alabama lawmakers talking about how to use next round of federal pandemic relief funds.