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April 15, 2013Healthcare information security staffers rightly worry about OCR audits and want to prepare their facilities for an assessment. But how do you best measure the progress of your security program? Alain Bouit, director of IT security at Adventist Health, a … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, OCR, OCR Audits, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentOCR To Solicit Feedback About HIPAA Compliance Audits
April 12, 2013The top federal healthcare privacy and security regulator wants to know what officials from more than 100 organizations that have undergone privacy and security audits thought of the process and what can be done to improve it. The office will … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HIPAA Audits, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, OCR, ONC, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentCMS Updates 2014 Meaningful Use Hospital CQMs
April 11, 2013The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday, April 2nd, published an update for the 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for hospitals eligible for the meaningful use program. At the same time, CMS also issued corresponding specifications for electronic … Continue reading
Posted in Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, CQMs, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentONC Launches Second State Level MU Challenge
April 10, 2013HHS has launched a second year of a friendly competition between the states and U.S. territories to give them incentives to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology among their citizens and organizations.Called the State Meaningful Use … Continue reading
Posted in Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentHIPAA Omnibus Rule Will Bring More Enforcement
April 9, 2013The HIPAA Privacy and Security final rule — also known as the HIPAA Omnibus Rule — became effective March 26. We predict enforcers will have a heyday with expanded ability to crack down on providers and their business associates. The … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Health IT Tips, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, medical practice best practices, OCR, PHI, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentCMS Changes Course, Will Raise 2014 Medicare Advantage Payments
April 8, 2013Under a withering barrage of pressure from the insurance industry, seniors groups and Congressional members from both sides of the aisle, CMS on Monday did an about face and significantly raised its 2014 growth percentage estimate for the Medicare Advantage … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Medicare | Leave a commentNew EHR Bill Would Help Struggling Providers Achieve Meaningful Use
April 5, 2013A newly proposed bill garnering the support of several medical associations would establish exemptions and amend certain penalties for Medicare providers struggling to attest to meaningful use. The Electronic Health Records Improvement Act, sponsored by Representative Diane Black (R-Tenn.), would … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentOrganizations Develop Health IT Privacy Framework
April 4, 2013A consortium of privacy supporting organizations and individuals, the Texas-based Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, Microsoft Corp. and consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers have developed what they’re calling a “trust framework” for health information technology systems.The 13-page framework consists of about 75 criteria based … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, Healthcare, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, HIT, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentIncorporating Images Key To HIE Sustainability
April 3, 2013Health information exchanges (HIEs) today are focusing on gathering and making “basic” information accessible at the point of care. Although access to textual data such as lab results and discharge summaries is of tremendous value to industry stakeholders, that alone … Continue reading
Posted in HIE | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services, HIE, PACS, Patient Experience, Radiology, Radiology Image Exchange | Leave a commentNew Survey Finds Physicians Want To Limit Patient Access To Their EHR
April 2, 2013Even as policmakers are pushing patient engagement, a new survey signals doctors may not be ready to relinquish control of their patients’ medical record. Eighty-two percent of U.S. physicians responding to a recent survey indicated they want patients to actively … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Study, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a comment ← Older posts Newer posts →
