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June 3, 2013Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its May 2013 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: May 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter? Click on this link to … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EHR Study, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentCMS Provides Details On Meaningful Use Audits
May 21, 2013The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this year implemented pre-payment audits on Medicare and dually eligible (Medicare and Medicaid) providers participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. The pre-payment audits complement post-payment audits that CMS has conducted since 2012. Both … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentFour Key Steps When Evaluating Encryption For PHI Data Security
May 20, 2013Encryption is an important breach prevention tool. But to make the right decisions about how to apply encryption, healthcare organizations should take four key steps The first step is to precisely identify where all protected health information is stored. Today, … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence, PHI Data Security | Tagged CMS Policy, Encryption Solutions, Encryption Technology, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, HITECH Act, Meaningful Use, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security, PHI Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentHHS To Address HIPAA Rules For Firearm Background Checks
May 15, 2013After last year’s mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, the Obama Administration has been looking for ways to address gun violence, either through new legal reforms or by working with existing policy, and one option is to clarify HIPAA provisions … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence, HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules | Leave a commentHHS Unveils New Tools To Educate Healthcare Providers About The HIPAA Privacy And Security Rules
May 2, 2013The Department of Health and Human Services, in its auditing and enforcement activities, has confirmed that a lack of training is a common cause of HIPAA compliance difficulties. So it’s taking several steps to help. This week, HHS unveiled … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, PHI, PHI Data Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentCMS To Assess Quality Measures
April 19, 2013Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is partnering with Cambridge, Mass.-based analytics firm GNS Healthcare and Health Services Advisory Group to assess CMS quality measures. GNS officials say the firm will deploy its REFS, or Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation, … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, HHS | Leave a commentHHS Launches New Patient Safety Workgroup
April 18, 2013Members of a new workgroup focused on ways to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health IT, including mobile medical applications, have been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Communications Commission. The workgroup will … Continue reading
Posted in HHS | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Patient Experience | Leave a commentNew HIPAA Privacy And Security Rules Goes Into Effect Today
March 26, 2013While Tuesday marks the effective date of a host of new federal privacy and security rules, including extending legal liability to business associates of healthcare providers and restoring a measure of patient control over disclosure of their records, compliance won’t … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Health IT Standards, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, PHI, PHI Data Security, PHI Security | Leave a commentUS Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Incentive Program
March 6, 2013The fiscal trap that members of Congress and the president set for themselves will punch a 2% hole in one of the federal electronic health-record incentive payment programs under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a federal official has confirmed.The … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentThe TMA Calling For a Federal HIT Safety Czar
March 5, 2013The Texas Medical Association is calling for appointment of a federal health information technology safety czar, while the American Medical Association wants to see more health IT safety research focused on systems in ambulatory care.The requests from the largest state … Continue reading
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