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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"hipaa"”.
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Analysis of the Adherence of mHealth Applications to HIPAA Technical Safeguards
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as the use of mHealth apps increases. Unfortunately, many mobile app developers, particularly those of mHealth apps, do not completely understand the HIPAA security and privacy requirements. This offers a unique opportunity for research to …
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Compliance of Open Source EHR Applications with HIPAA and ONC Security and Privacy Requirements
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability. However, there have been reported breaches of Protected Health Identifier (PHI) data stored by EHR applications. In many reported breaches, improper use of EHRs has resulted in …
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The Health of Patient Privacy: The Patient's Perspective on the HIPAA Protected Health Information
… <p>As healthcare entities continue to focus on HIPAA compliance, they must enforce policies that require patients to sign and express understanding of the organization’s privacy policies. It appears the patient’s perspective on healthcare privacy has not been considered within the HIPAA privacy …
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Essays on Human Error in Electronic Health Records (EHR) Information Security
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) monetary penalties influence compromised patient records. This dissertation concludes that addressing EHR information security threats requires a fundamental shift in the healthcare sector's approach to data security. The research determines …
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Distributed querying of clinical documents modeled as HL7 version 3 standard
… cryptographic techniques. This is necessary for HIPAA compliance. Third component provides a user interface for posing clinical queries by clinicians and researchers. A comprehensive performance evaluation of CDN has been conducted on a local cluster using real-world clinical discharge summaries …
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The Applications of the Internet of things in the Medical Field
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) applies.</p> <p>This work investigates various applications of IoT in healthcare and focuses on the security aspects of the two internet of medical things (IoMT) devices: the LifeWatch Mobile Cardiac Telemetry 3 Lead (MCT3L), and the remote …
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Approaches to creating anonymous patient database
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the quality of patient data also needs to be ensured in order for data mining tasks achieve accurate results. This thesis describes a patient data transformation system which transforms patient data into high quality and anonymous …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… repeated exposures. Essay 3 examines 2009-2023 HIPAA breach data; quasi-experimental methods reveal transitory cost spikes that revert to baseline within five years, suggesting insurance coverage and managerial buffers limit losses. Collectively, the essays indicate psychedelic decriminalization …
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A novel approach to protecting mobile healthcare applications in mobile cloud
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and ethical concerns, security and limiting access are of the utmost importance. We implemented and tested a system herein to establish a connection between mobile devices and cloud services that is secure, usable and limits access to …
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Blockchain-based Medical Image Sharing and Critical-result Notification
… blockchain, further research on governance and HIPAA compliance is required to optimize the adoption of the new technology.</p>
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Automated de-identification of free-text medical records
… (PHI) must be thoroughly scrubbed according to HIPAA specifications to preserve patient confidentiality. Manual de-identification on large databases tends to be prohibitively expensive, time-consuming and prone to error, making a computerized algorithm an urgent need for large-scale …
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A theory and toolkit for the mathematics of privacy : methods for anonymizing data while minimizing information loss
… barriers through technology. The US law known as HIPAA, for example, allows medical records to be released to researchers without patient consent if the records are provably anonymized prior to their disclosure. It is not enough for records to be seemingly anonymous. For example, one researcher …
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Secure inference of quantized neural networks
… party may have developed, and medical images are HIPAA protected and thus, cannot leave hospital servers. However, with secure neural network inference, hospitals can send encrypted medical images as input to a modified neural network that is compatible with leveled fully homomorphic encryption …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cyber Security Regulations
… Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are three such regulations that have been implemented to address this need. This thesis aims to evaluate the effectiveness of these …
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Harpocrates: Privacy-Preserving and Immutable Audit Log for Sensitive Data Operations
… to comply to standard data regulations (e.g., HIPAA). Despite its critical needs, state-of-the-art privacy-preserving audit log schemes (e.g., Ghostor (NSDI '20), Calypso (VLDB '19)) do not fully obtain a high level of privacy, integrity, and immutability simultaneously, in which certain …
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Neural Data Shaping and Evaluation via Mutual Information Estimation
… Privacy protection regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR and recent progress in information estimation literature motivate us to investigate the issue from an information theoretic perspective. In this thesis, we propose InfoShape, an encoder training scheme that aims to maintain privacy …
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A quality improvement project for post-COVID-19 patients through reminder phone calls
… Plan/Procedure: The DNP students completed HIPAA training and utilized a script provided by the large Midwest healthcare organization when calling patients. A weekly report was provided by the community partner that includes a list of patients who needed to be called, according to the "post …
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Pediatrician Perceptions of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
… support and compatibility issues with HIPAA are not perceived as barriers. Other issues, such as human resource needs, were more likely to be perceived as barriers in one subpopulation versus another. These data suggest a disconnect between PCMH familiarity and PCMH interest in …
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MANTRAM FOR MAMAS: A PILOT STUDY FOR POSTPARTUM WOMEN
… to access four oMRP learning modules through a HIPAA-compliant portal during a 30-day study period. Participants provided sociodemographic data and completed satisfaction surveys throughout the study. Questions from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire …
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Use of National Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data Warehouse to Identify Inappropriate HbA1c Orders for Sickle cell Disease Patients
… in Kansas City, MO. We analyzed de-identified, HIPAA compliant, electronic health record (EHR) data in the Cerner Health Facts™ (HF) data warehouse. We identified the frequency of inappropriate orders of HbA1c tests by comparing the 526 Sickle cell patients in TMC with 36,625 sickle cell …
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