Employee Benefit News October 20, 2023
Paola Peralta

Healthcare companies and institutions want to stay up to date with tech innovations as much as any other industry, but may be fearful that integrating new tech could put them at risk of unintentionally violating compliance regulations.

Poorly built healthcare software could result in patient information data breaches which, depending on the severity of the breach, could cost an organization penalties that range from fines of $100 to $50,000 per violation with an annual maximum penalty of $1.5 million for each violation category, according to the HIPAA journal.

“So many different tech tools and software and AI services have come out lately and some of the places that need it the most are healthcare organizations,” says Nanxi Liu,...

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