Tag: healthcare

GDPR: Portuguese hospital fined €400k for bad access controls to patient data | ICT

Portugal initiates fines under the GDPR in the EU. The data protection supervisory authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) issued a €400k fine against a hospital for three infringements of the GDPR. This article is the opportunity to analyse two elements:

  • looking back at a few important decisions and ruling that we have seen since 25 May 2018; and
  • understand what is the current situation with Swiss hospitals from a privacy perspective.
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Outsourcing medical billing: a matter of transparency

What is required when outsourcing medical invoices to a third party?

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In healthcare, it is frequent for medical professionals and health institutions to outsource medical billing to a third party. There are many financial and practical advantages to subcontract such service. First, outsourcing can increase efficiency, by reducing the cost of performing these kinds of tasks by the employees.… Plus...