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  2. What to Know About Patient Portals - WebMD

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    A patient portal is a secure website set up by a health care system, hospital, or clinic. The tools (or features) vary, depending on the portal. Patient portals can help you access medical records ...

  3. Health care provider - Wikipedia

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    Health care provider. A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices. Health care providers often receive payments for their services rendered from health insurance providers.

  4. Patient portal - Wikipedia

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    Patient portals are healthcare -related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals. Typically, portal services are available on the Internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their ...

  5. Do Patients Know When AI Is Assisting in Health Care? - WebMD

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    Assigning administrative tasks is a relatively low-risk way to introduce use of artificial intelligence in health care, said Cohen, and attorney and director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health ...

  6. Telemedicine: The Benefits of Virtual Healthcare

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    Telemedicine offers a wide range of benefits, with the ultimate goal of better health outcomes. These benefits are also the reasons why so many people often opt for this type of care. The benefits ...

  7. National Provider Identifier - Wikipedia

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    A National Provider Identifier ( NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...

  8. Self-Advocacy: Know Your Rights as a Patient - WebMD

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    One thing that makes being a self-advocate a little bit easier is the fact that you as a patient have very specific rights. Some of these rights are guaranteed by federal law. For example, you ...

  9. Health law - Wikipedia

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    Health law is a field of law that encompasses federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the health care industry and its patients, and delivery of health care services, with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional issues.