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APIs for Sharing Healthcare Data

This is the second post in a series about sharing healthcare data according to new CMS guidelines. The first post covers New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data.

New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data

Why would providers, payers, and consumers share Healthcare data? Healthcare as an industry has been slow to implement data sharing across payers, providers, and patients. Impediments to data sharing have traditionally included regulations (i.e. HIPAA) as well as the...

GDPR is Here! What is it and How Does it Affect Your Compliance Management Program?

If you’ve been a privacy professional at any point in the last few decades, your head is spinning with the myriad of privacy laws and regulations in the U.S. and abroad. Some examples are the European Data Protection Directive of 1995, the strengthening of that...

Privacy and Security: What’s the Difference?

Article Summary: Security controls are put in place to control who can access the information, but privacy controls are for when and what they can access. For example, doctors at a nationwide primary care chain most likely have security access to each patient’s...