The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a landmark healthcare legislation, transforming the way organizations handle sensitive data surrounding a patient’s medical care. Covered entities that interact with protected health information (PHI) most closely are required to abide by all pertinent regulations within HIPAA requirements, while business associates may only need to comply […]
Data protection is an increasing concern in all industries, but none more so than the healthcare sector. To complicate matters, the regulatory environment surrounding data protection is a complex hodgepodge of global, federal, state, and industry-specific laws. The HiTRUST framework is the gold standard for helping organizations develop a system to manage regulatory compliance and risk […]
Blockchain has been hitting the news more and more recently. The main reason is its increased use following the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Blockchain is, after all, the technology that allows cryptocurrencies to run. However, blockchain is not only the driver behind the highs and lows of digital currency. It can also record transactions, […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made dramatic improvements in the past few years, particularly in natural language processing. From the first chatbot — a pseudo-therapist named Eliza — to ChatGPT, AI chatbots have evolved from crude, rules-based programs that could only respond with limited phrases to sophisticated programs capable of learning from their interactions. Business use cases […]
5 Big challenges in automating healthcare documentation During the 2023 annual convention of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Consensus Cloud Solutions conducted a series of interesting live experiments. Each time a Consensus representative led one of the event’s sessions, they would ask a volunteer in the audience to fill out a standard […]
