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Understanding HIPAA
4 hours ago ago from emPower LMS' Blog
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA, as it is popularly known was enacted in 1996 by Congress. It came into force on 1 July, 1997. The main purpose of this act is to manage health care delivery system and regulate health insurance industry so that people are protected from frauds, malpractices and discrimination. The Act provides health insurance coverage to the individuals and their families, who loose or ...
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1 day ago ago from thesecrethealth.com
America's largest managed care organization, Kaiser Permanente, is teaming up with computer technology giant Microsoft to pilot a consumer controlled personal health record service to 156,000 Kaiser employees, which if successful, will then roll out to 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. The new service will allow voluntary data exchange between Kaiser's My Health Manager patient information and ...
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9 hours ago ago from The Policy Page
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6 hours ago ago from The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
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13 hours ago ago from One Utah
What factors make health care socially, dynamically and generatively complex? When we talk about it, we point to the fact that right now a huge number of Americans are uninsured which in our system equates to lack of access to health care. But we fail to define if that is the problem itself or if that is a symptom of a deeper problem. At first, it seems like a simple problem but there is little agreement about it; for instance ...
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