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The Complete Epic Implementation Guide For 2025

Arkenea

Epic Systems dominates the electronic health record (EHR) market, powering over 250 million patient records across the United States. Healthcare organizations must transfer patient records, clinical data, financial information, and operational data from legacy systems while ensuring accuracy, completeness, and accessibility.

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RAG in Healthcare: Your Complete Guide to Its Implementation

Arkenea

Think of RAG as having a brilliant medical researcher who can instantly access and synthesize information from your entire healthcare knowledge base like patient records, clinical guidelines, research papers, and treatment protocols to provide precise, contextual answers to complex medical queries.

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Email Breach Affects 22,000 Ambulatory Surgery Center of Westchester Patients

The HIPAA Journal

Mobile Medical Response Warns Patients About PHI Breach Mobile Medical Response, a Michigan-based provider of medical transportation and ambulance services, has announced that there has been an impermissible disclosure of patient information at one of its business associates.

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6 aspects to consider when choosing the right medical coding partner for your practice 

Health Prime

Read more about this in our blog How to make sure your Business Associates are HIPAA Compliant. It is imperative to assess the coding partner’s technology infrastructure and compatibility with your practice management or Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

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Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Health Populi

Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Amon the five industries they tracked, healthcare accounted for 1 in 4 total breaches in 2017, exposing over five million patient records.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

State Attorneys General can also impose financial penalties on HIPAA-covered entities and business associates for violations of the HIPAA Rules. Another increase is due to be applied on January 15, 2025, but will likely be applied much later. Alternatively, financial penalties can be imposed if a breach of ePHI violates state laws.

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The Top HIPAA Threats Are Not What You Think

The HIPAA Journal

Protect devices against theft, protect data against cybercriminals, and protect yourself against unauthorized third party disclosures by signing a Business Associate Agreement. Many articles listing the top HIPAA threats pretty much follow a similar theme. Unfortunately these articles are way off the mark.

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