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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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Meet Doximity Scribe

Doximity

Today, we’re excited to begin rolling out Doximity Scribe to the broader medical community. Scribe is a HIPAA-compliant, AI-powered clinical documentation tool that automatically generates notes during patient visits. physicians, NPs, PAs, and medical students. If you’d like early access, you can sign up here.

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April 2025 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

These are likely to continue to be reported by affected HIPAA-regulated entities over the next few weeks. CA Health Plan 12,224 Unauthorized Access/Disclosure Mailing incident involving mailing vendor (Billing Documents Specialists) Shipping labels contained Social Security numbers.

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Medical billing audits: A proactive approach to compliance and revenue protection 

Health Prime

Medical billing audits are a great tool for achieving compliance and safeguarding revenue. Regular audits help medical practices stay on top of these changes and comply with coding and billing rules defined by the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and private payers. Why do these audits matter?

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Somnia’s $2.4 Million Data Breach Settlement Receives Final Approval

The HIPAA Journal

The plaintiffs claimed that Somnia was negligent by failing to implement appropriate cybersecurity safeguards to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of the data stored on its network, did not follow industry security standards, and was not fully compliant with the HIPAA Rules. The post Somnias $2.4

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Healthcare Staff Database with 86,000 Records Exposed Online

The HIPAA Journal

Medical documents were also found that included diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatments, which Fowler presumed served as proof of medical grounds for missing shifts. The post Healthcare Staff Database with 86,000 Records Exposed Online appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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How Automation is Revolutionizing Medical Claims Processing Accuracy 

CollaborateMD

Despite its significance, the manual processes involved in tackling medical claims are error prone and time-consuming. Join us as we examine how automation revolutionizes medical claims processing accuracy and improves outcomes across the healthcare spectrum. Reducing duplication errors in medical claims documentation.