EHR, Featured, HIPAA, HITECH
Data Breach Thresholds
A provisional rule announced by Congress will only force health care providers to notify patients of breaches to customer data only if the breach “poses a significant risk of financial, reputational, or other harm to the individual.” How will the risk factors be determined? Will existing state laws on data breaches provide protection where the [...]
HIPAA
Private: HIPAA Compliance Report
Posted on 08 January 2010
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Survey of exam waiting.
Posted on 16 December 2009
As part of research for an upcoming article I’d like to get some response to the following short survey. Physical access to health care IT resources by patients could greatly impact the security of your organization with the new EHR requirements. Continue Reading
EHR, PHR
Privacy and Security Risks and the National Health IT Infrastructure
Posted on 16 December 2009
As part of the 2009 HITECH Act, a national health information technology infrastructure (NHITI) is required for access and use of electronic health records resulting in a more “effective marketplace, greater competition…[and] increased consumer choice (HITECH Act, Section 3001(b)).” Such a system is not only necessary, but it is cardinal to improving delivery and reducing [...] Continue Reading
EHR
Patient Symptom Survey
Posted on 17 November 2009
Would you be willing to complete a short survey before your visit to the doctor if it would improve wait time and potentially decrease visit costs? Continue Reading
EHR
Is Obama’s Stimulus creating new EHR users?
Posted on 03 November 2009
Here is an interesting survey being driven over at SoftwareAdvice.com. Is Obama’s EHR stimulus creating more buyers or just a lot of providers kicking the tires around? Take their survey here http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/medical/obamas-emr-stimulus-of-2009-creating-buyers-or-tire-kickers-1102709/ Continue Reading
EHR, PHR
Google Health could drive EHRs
Posted on 19 August 2009
With two large players, Microsoft and Google, entering the health IT marketplace, it would make sense that the two would drive standards for information exchange between applications and their PHR systems. Microsoft and Google are notorious for innovation and driving development towards their own ends yet neither seems too vocal on electronic health records and the [...] Continue Reading
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