Whether it’s a “reusable NLP pipeline for clinical narratives preprocessing and characterization,” an exploration focused on “evaluating Generative AI for polio containment” – or any number of other healthcare-focused applications large and small –…
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The US Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard that tracks patient and workforce harm. The goal is to monitor patient safety indicators so that improvement can result….
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The eHealth Exchange said that by designating it as its Qualified Health Information Network, the Indian Health Service is now exchanging health data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.WHY IT MATTERS
While most…
Once again, organizations across the healthcare industry are appealing to Congressional leaders to extend telehealth flexibilities beyond the December 31 deadline, imploring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate…
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In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
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Introduction
Hospital price transparency laws were introduced with the goal of making healthcare costs more predictable, increasing competition, and ideally reducing prices. Three years after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented these…
The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information with the…
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Introduction
To improve access to preventive and reproductive healthcare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule to expand coverage for birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The proposed rule…
The Uncomfortable Truth About Healthcare DataBy Mike Green
Mike Green, MBA is chief information security officer of Availity.
Cyberattacks have become an all-too-common occurrence, with no industry immune from their effects. In healthcare, the stakes…
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Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack.WHY IT MATTERSThe U.S….
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