April 3, 2013 2:57 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
HIPAA,
HIPAA enforcement,
HIPAA omnibus rule,
HIPAA Privacy Rule,
HITECH ActThis year, the April Journal of AHIMA marks the HIPAA Privacy Rule's 10th birthday with a cover story. In the piece, many heavy-hitters of the healthcare world weigh in, none heavier than Leon Rodriguez, director of the Office for Civil Rights of the US Department of Health and Human...
March 13, 2013 11:39 AM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
HIPAA compliance,
HITECH Act,
patient advocacy,
PHICAMBRIDGE, MA -- Here at the Protected Health Information (PHI) Protection Network's first conference -- attended by senior health system IT leadership, HIPAA legal authorities and vendor privacy executives -- a theme is emerging in healthcare leaders'...
January 31, 2013 5:49 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
ACO,
clinical quality measures,
EHR,
health reform,
Meaningful use,
quality reportingCurrently available electronic health record systems are not capable of accurately capturing and reporting clinical quality data, according to a new comment letter from the College of Healthcare...
January 15, 2013 12:03 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
EHR incentive,
meaningful use incentives,
medicare EHR incentive programThe American Hospital Association (AHA) is requesting changes be made to electronic health record (EHR) incentive reporting to include physicians who have been declared ineligible. The issue affects...
December 14, 2012 2:48 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
HIPAA,
HIPAA Privacy Rule,
HIPAA security rule,
HITECH Act,
Meaningful useWell here we are, nearing the end of a busy year in health IT. And while there have been many major developments in the industry over the last 12 months, one bit of unfinished business still hangs unresolved: the final HIPAA omnibus rule,
December 11, 2012 1:16 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
data breach,
health care data breach,
HITECH ActNearly 500 total data breaches, each affecting at least 500 patients have been reported in the past three years as required by the HITECH Act, according to
October 16, 2012 11:51 AM
Posted by: adelvecchio
CMS,
data breach,
health care data breach,
HITECH ActThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) failed to meet the HITECH Act’s standard for timeliness in reporting medical data breaches to beneficiaries in seven of 14 cases over a two year period, according to an Office of Inspector General report.
CMS did notify all beneficiaries...
September 19, 2012 1:43 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
accountable care organizations,
Atul Gawande,
Cheesecake Factory,
Health care reform and federal initiativesA couple things must be said before we get into this. One: The last thing I want to do is start a blog beef with health care thought leader and Boston physician Atul Gawande, M.D. whose thought-provoking New Yorker...
August 23, 2012 12:29 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
accountable care organizations,
health information exchange,
health reformWe hear a lot about how hospitals have present market incentives to avoid participation in coordinated-care models such as accountable care organizations. Some may see sharing information with other providers as a competitive disadvantage. Others are wary that participating in ACOs, which...
