The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Sandhills used a vendor (Netgain Technologies) for electronic storage of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems. The vendor notified Sandhills on January 8, 2021, about a ransomware attack on November 15, 2020. The ransomware group used compromised credentials to access its systems and steal sensitive data.

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Arkenea

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2021, the number of healthcare apps on Google Play Store stands at 53,054. However, any protected health information (PHI) that your app collects or stores needs to be safeguarded against malicious forces to remain compliant under HIPAA regulations. Telemedicine billing has been simplified.

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Increased Efficiency and Productivity Mobile EHR apps streamline routine tasks such as patient scheduling, charting, prescription writing, and billing. Secure and HIPAA-Compliant When we’re dealing with patients’ medical histories and other sensitive data, it’s not just about privacy; it’s about trust.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 15, 2024

million in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $15,017.42 Grocery Shopping List For a healthy diet everyone needs a strict grocery shopping list, so this feature fits the bill perfectly. HIPAA Compliance: This is one of the essential aspects of any healthcare app that involves patient information. billion in 2024.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. It also minimized human errors by ensuring an optimized medical billing process. Online payments allow patients to self-manage their bills and balances.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

The scammers steal Medicare numbers and other personal information and bill Medicare for unnecessary RPN services. billion is estimated to have been fraudulently billed to Medicare for urinary catheters. Medicare payments for the billing codes used for urinary catheters increased from $153 million in 2021 to $2.1

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Reactive case management occurs when prior authorization for treatment is denied, affecting timeliness of patient treatment (Braxton, 2024)(DeMarzo & Ayoub, 2021). Data sourced from (Mills, 2021). This disclaimer protects against HIPAA violations by limiting personal health record disclosure. 2021, March 2).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on.

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

The HIPAA regulation mandates that all healthcare organizations must send claims electronically. Cloud-based EMR fits the bill aptly. They don’t need complex installation processes and neither a heavy pocket to pay the bill. billion in 2021 at a 16.3 Currently, around 77.8 billion in 2026, growing from $445.3

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Scrubs

APRIL 25, 2023

The law builds off the governor’s 2021 executive order that required managed care plans and hospitals to report all Medicaid and governmental expenditures incurred on behalf of noncitizens. The group argued that immigration status should be protected under HIPAA. The American Civil Liberties Union also opposes the legislation.

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Valant

APRIL 21, 2025

For example, staff members who handle billing need insurance information, but not detailed clinical notes. Practices should define role-based access levels, granting providers full clinical access while limiting administrative staff to only scheduling and billing permissions.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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