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What is HIPAA Incident Management?

The HIPAA Journal

HIPAA incident management is the process of tracking, responding to, and documenting HIPAA security incidents as they are detected by automated security tools or reported by members of the workforce. Regardless of whether HIPAA incident management is fully automated, manual, or semi-manual, the process must include specific elements.

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Is OpenAI HIPAA Compliant? 2025 Guide

Arkenea

Healthcare organizations exploring AI solutions often ask one critical question: is OpenAI HIPAA compliant? The direct answer : Yes, OpenAI can be HIPAA compliant, but only for their API services when specific requirements are met. This agreement establishes OpenAI as your business associate under HIPAA regulations.

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How to Implement Behavioral Health Compliance Best Practices

Relias

To help you better manage your organization’s various compliance needs, let’s delve into what behavioral compliance entails and some best practices to keep in mind. Consider HIPAA as an example: violations classified as “unknown” may incur fines starting at $100 per infraction. million per year.

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How to Streamline Your Medical Claims Management Process for Better Results 

CollaborateMD

The truth is that the road conventional health insurance follows in processing claims is needlessly complicated, leaving room for many unwanted errors and frustrated providers. Process a bulk submission of claims, significantly speeding up the process and improving revenue cycles. Easy, right? Not if you ask billing managers.

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Verisource Services Increases Data Breach Victim Count to 4 Million

The HIPAA Journal

Verisource Services, an employee benefits administration service provider, has determined that a previously announced data breach was far worse than initially thought and has affected up to 4 million individuals.The Houston, Texas-based company detected a hacking incident on February 28, 2024, that disrupted access to some of its systems.

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HHS-OIG Audit Finds Security Gaps at Large Northeastern Hospital

The HIPAA Journal

While OCR usually conducts audits of HIPAA-regulated entities to assess cybersecurity and compliance with the HIPAA Rules, HHS-OIG’s 2025 Work Plan includes a series of 10 audits of U.S. Ensure developers follow secure coding practices. The audited entity was not named due to the threat of cyberattacks.

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Understanding Ethical Standards for Medical Assistants

Prism Career Institute

Here, we offer insight into the medical ethics to follow while working in a medical assistant career. The AAMA has both a creed and code of ethics that medical assistants should follow: The American Association of Medical Assistants Creed The creed outlines the mindset medical assistants should have as they perform their work.