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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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Meeting Psychiatrists’ Technical Needs: A Practice Owner’s Guide to EHR

Valant

Customizable Note Templates The ability to create and customize templates for intake, medical history, therapy notes , and progress notes helps save time and energy. Telehealth Capabilities HIPAA-compliant telehealth capabilities allow you to treat patients remotely in individual or group therapy sessions.

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Key Applications of AI in Healthcare

Mobius MD

Predicting Patient Outcomes – AI can process large amounts of patient data, including medical history, demographics, and lifestyle factors, to predict patient outcomes. Automating DocumentationMedical documentation used to be one of the most time-consuming tasks for physicians.

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Duties and Responsibilities for Entry-Level Medical Assistants

Prism Career Institute

It’s also crucial to maintain patient confidentiality and follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. Obtaining background information: Before a patient sees a physician, an assistant typically discusses their medical history and makes sure the facility has an accurate record on file.

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Therapy Notes vs. Progress Notes

Valant

HIPAA regulates that therapy notes be stored separately from progress notes. This covers information such as diagnosis, symptoms, medical history, test results, treatment plan, progress at appointments, prescription medications, etc.

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19Labs & WellCheck Partnership Enhances GALE | Schools Package with Streamlined Consent Forms

19 Labs

This collaboration adds the ability to streamline how schools send and collect consent forms and other documents to the GALE platform. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WellCheck pivoted to utilize its cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform for wellness screenings.

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5 benefits of having a patient portal for your practice 

Health Prime

Data accuracy and compliance Patient portals improve data accuracy by allowing patients to update their personal information and medical history electronically. Consequently, this reduces the likelihood of errors in documentation and ensures that the practice has the most up-to-date information.