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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of Big Data: Ensuring Patient Privacy in Healthcare Data Analytics

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Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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5 Trends to Watch for Outpatient Therapists in 2025

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Expanding Supportive Care Offerings: Innovative clinics can boost revenue by introducing cash-pay services, such as training programs to prevent injuries or enhance performance. However, practices must address potential risks, including insurance compliance and healthcare payor audits, while preparing for emerging regulations.

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Step-by-Step Guide to the Process of Medical Billing Services

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Insurance Verification To ensure the patient’s financial liability and to prevent future inconvenience, the healthcare professional contacts the insurance company to confirm the patient’s insurance coverage. Such claims are generally submitted digitally as per the compliance of HIPAA regulations.

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Is DEA putting a telehealth controlled substance registry on the table?

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WHY IT MATTERS The DEA said in its notice that it is conducting public listening sessions to get input on prescribing controlled substances on telemedicine platforms and to learn about the availability and types of data that would be useful in detecting diversion and potential safeguards that could effectively prevent and detect the diversion.

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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

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– An overwhelming percentage of patients demand accountability, transparency, and control as it relates to health data privacy. Strong regulations are needed to support patients’ right to data privacy and restore trust in data exchange that facilitates accessible, equitable, and personalized care.

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Precision Medicine 2.0: How AI-Driven Insights Are Changing Healthcare for the Better

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Personalized Treatment Plans Traditional treatments often rely on standardized protocols that fail to account for the unique characteristics of individual patients. Physicians can then intervene earlier with preventive measures, improving patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.

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Fixing A ‘Badly Broken Medical System’: Home Care Leaders Testify Before Congress On Post-Acute Care

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He expressed concern that this post-acute care plan amounts to a prescription for a mountain of medical debt and, for some, a preventable death sentence. He urged Congress to motivate CMS to keep refining the post-acute care payment system to ensure that payments account for the uniqueness of each setting, case complexity and resource use.