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Unpacking 9 factors that influence patient engagement
Healthcare providers must understand the factors influencing patient engagement and interaction participation. Furthermore, healthcare organizations...
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What are AI hallucinations?
Tshedimoso Makhene: Jan 22, 2025 4:27:33 PM
AI hallucinations occur when an artificial intelligence model generates incorrect, misleading, or nonsensical outputs that are not grounded in...
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How HIPAA protects same-sex spouses in healthcare (Post Obergefell)
Kirsten Peremore: Jan 22, 2025 2:53:19 PM
HIPAA’s Privacy Rule allows healthcare providers to share relevant health information with family members, which now explicitly includes same-sex...
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What to know about the changes to the HIPAA Security Rule
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced significant changes to the HIPAA Security Rule, marking the first major update since 2013. These...
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What is digital health literacy?
Kirsten Peremore: Jan 22, 2025 4:33:39 AM
Digital health literacy is being able to seek, find, understand, and apply health information from electronic sources to address health-related...
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Protecting patient privacy on social media
Farah Amod: Jan 21, 2025 5:29:28 PM
Healthcare professionals must exercise extreme caution when using social media, as improper postings can lead to serious breaches of patient trust,...
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Prioritizing nurses' well-being through innovative solutions
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare, yet their well-being often goes unnoticed within the system, which is perpetually stretched by chronic...
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Confidentiality in conflict management
Conflicts are inevitable in any workplace, from misunderstandings between patients and providers to disagreements among healthcare staff.
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Terminating a BAA
Tshedimoso Makhene: Jan 17, 2025 10:39:07 AM
Terminating a business associate agreement (BAA) means ending the legal contract between a covered entity and a business associate. This action...
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Why ethical principles are the backbone of HIPAA compliance
Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and upholding patient privacy heavily relies on fundamental ethical...
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The importance of traceability in HIPAA compliant software development
While efforts have been made to address privacy and security in software development, one aspect that is usually ignored is traceability.
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Using video conferencing for communicating with deaf patients
Research on Video Relay Interpretation (VRI) indicates that video conferencing can help deaf patients overcome interpretation barriers and enhance...
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Legal liabilities associated with a data breach
Tshedimoso Makhene: Jan 15, 2025 7:00:06 PM
The legal liabilities stemming from data breaches are extensive and multifaceted. Beyond fines and lawsuits, organizations risk long-term damage to...