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The Complete Epic Implementation Guide For 2025

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Epic Systems dominates the electronic health record (EHR) market, powering over 250 million patient records across the United States. Comprehensive testing reduces go-live risks and ensures system reliability from the initial deployment. Clean data migration reduces downstream problems and ensures Epic system reliability.

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RAG in Healthcare: Your Complete Guide to Its Implementation

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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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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 Complete Know How on EMR API Integration

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Here’s what falls under HIPAA: HIPAA Privacy Rule: The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes guidelines for safeguarding any personally identifiable health information that Covered Entities (CE) or Business Associates (BA) handle. After deployment, ongoing observation is essential.

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UnitedHealth Group Confirms Data Stolen in Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

The HIPAA Journal

The AHA explained in the letter that Change Healthcare is a covered entity and, as such, has a duty to notify OCR and the affected individuals about any data breach, even in cases where Change Healthcare acts as a business associate. UnitedHealth Provides $2.5B

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New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

The HIPAA Journal

Individuals suffering from substance abuse disorder (SUD) must also be able to get the treatment they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has meant changes needed to be made to 42 CFR Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations. A definition has been added for electronic health records.

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HIPAA Updates and HIPAA Changes in 2023

The HIPAA Journal

There has also been a proposed update to align the 42 CFR Part 2 – Confidentiality Of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations more closely with HIPAA, with those Part 2 and HIPAA changes expected to be signed into law in 2023. ” Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Community-Based Testing Sites.

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