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Briefing: How to avoid a health care data breach

A data breach can be quite costly to a provider's budget and reputation. This briefing offers advice for securing health care data to comply with HIPAA and HITECH Act rules. Continue Reading
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FAQ guides for health care IT

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Has hospital price transparency affected healthcare costs?
Data indicates that hospital price transparency laws have caused healthcare costs to level off.
90% of medical coding staff worry about upcoding, fraud
Healthcare fraud, such as upcoding and unbundling, has medical coding and billing professionals worried about the industry.
How healthcare leaders can mitigate concentration risk
Healthcare organizations are especially susceptible to concentration risk, creating a single point of failure that can jeopardize...

Disclosing medical errors, adverse events to patients
Disclosing a medical error to a patient is a moral and ethical imperative for healthcare providers.
Oracle Health unveils patient portal tool for care management
The Oracle Health Patient Portal and Oracle Health Patient Administration tools aim to streamline care management and patient ...
Out-of-pocket healthcare costs tarnish patient experience
High out-of-pocket healthcare costs, plus poor health plan navigability, harm the patient experience and care access.

Can AI-driven care coordination software improve workflows?
By integrating an AI platform across dozens of hospitals and outpatient settings, University Hospitals aims to streamline care ...
LLMs show potential for hospital quality measure reporting
Large language models can process Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management Bundle quality measures in agreement with manual ...
Comparing real-world, synthetic and de-identified data
Real-world, synthetic and de-identified data all play a role in healthcare analytics efforts, but knowing which type of data to ...

HC3: Scattered Spider hits healthcare with social engineering
Scattered Spider cyberthreat actors leverage legitimate tools and social engineering tactics to target healthcare, HC3 warned.
HHS, NIST conference: OCR identifies top priority areas
Updating the HIPAA Security Rule is one of OCR's current top priorities, OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer said during an HHS/...
HHS, NIST conference: Collaboration is key in healthcare cyber
HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm emphasized the role of collaboration in tackling healthcare cybersecurity challenges at a ...

Behind the scenes of telehealth standards development
Leaders from NCQA and URAC discuss the development of telehealth standards to ensure high-quality virtual care and provide ...
Digital health buyers prioritize diabetes, mental health tools
A survey reveals healthcare providers, payers and employers plan to boost spending on digital health solutions over the next year...
Can RPM move the needle on post-discharge care for AKI?
Research shows that Mayo Clinic's remote patient monitoring program for acute kidney injury survivors is promising, but its ...