Healthcare IT Today September 28, 2023
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The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN

Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

HIPAA is regulatory guidance to ensure Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected in specific entities, mainly healthcare facilities, and healthcare admin support institutions, for the transfer and flow of health information.

How has the HIPPA management challenge increased? To review, in 2021, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that every 10 seconds, 14 US citizens’ PHI is compromised either through data hacking or unauthorized disclosure through healthcare providers and...

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