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HIPAA: Understanding Patient Confidentiality and How It Relates to Medical Assistants

Prism Career Institute

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law that regulates how patient information is managed, protecting their privacy. Medical assistants are required to abide by HIPAA laws to ensure proper confidentiality when collaborating with patients. What Is HIPAA?

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Website Tracking Lawsuit Against Orlando Health Survives Motion to Dismiss

The HIPAA Journal

She alleged that the tracking code sent a copy of the data she entered on the website to third parties such as Meta and Google in real-time without her knowledge or consent, and then the information was used to try to sell her products and services based on the intercepted communications. Judge Julie S.

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Why Good communication Matters in Healthcare

Practice Builders

We will consider the main difficulties in communication and tell you how to overcome them. Why Great Communication in Healthcare is Necessary Effective communication in healthcare really saves lives, improves health, and changes patients’ attitudes towards the disease. Lets analyze. drug allergies, lab abnormalities).

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Navigating the Storm: Maintaining Work-Life Balance as a Therapist During Personal Challenges

Valant

Features such as online appointment requests and automated reminders simplify scheduling , minimizing hassles associated with back-and-forth communication and rescheduling. Data analytics features offer insights that help with long-term planning, contributing to a more balanced and manageable workflow.

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MEDVA Awarded Healthcare Virtual Assistant Company of 2024

MedVA

VAs can handle a wide range of tasks, including medical records management, billing and insurance processing, scribing and transcriptions services, and patient communications, allowing practices to provide timely, efficient, and patient-centered care. healthcare protocols.

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9 design tweaks to refresh your practice

Physicians Practice

Clarifying a patient’s misunderstanding of the HIPAA privacy rule Rachel V. Rose, JD, MBA June 19th 2025 Article Understanding HIPAA's Privacy Rule clarifies how incidental disclosures in health care settings are permissible, ensuring patient privacy while facilitating essential communications.

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Feds Issue Interlock Ransomware Warning as Healthcare Attacks Spike

The HIPAA Journal

Once initial access has been gained, tools such as Interlock RAT and NodeSnake RAT are used for C2 communications and command execution. This involves tricking individuals into executing a malicious payload by convincing them that doing so will fix a problem on their device – blocking spam emails, removing a fictitious malware infection, etc.