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Healthcare reimbursement is rapidly evolving from primarily fee-for-service to value-based, risk sharing accountable care contracts. Health systems with employed physicians primarily paid on productivity-based compensation plans face the challenge of aligning their physician’s financial incentives with the new market requirements for quality, outcomes, and patient experience.  

HIPAA Prior to HIPAA, no generally accepted set of security standards or general requirements for protecting health information existed in the health care industry. At the same time, new technologies were evolving, and the health care industry began to move away from paper processes and rely more heavily on the use of electronic information systems […]