Category: Security
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Is Your EHR Ready for ICD-10, Not Just Say They’re Ready? – ICD-10 Tuesdays
This week I’m attending the mHealth Summit in Washington DC. One of the interviews I’ve had at the event was with Dan Cane, CEO of Modernizing Medicine. You might remember my previous post talking about Modernizing Medicine’s unique interface (and it’s still unique). However, Dan demoed their ICD-10 interface which was like none other I’ve…
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Three Years After… Believable/Unbelievable?
A recent report from the Inspector General paints a very negative picture of the Office for Civil Right’s (OCR’s) performance and registers another mark against HHS in information security. But if you look closely at the report, it looks at information collected in 2010, just after OCR assumed responsibility for the Security Rule. My grandfather…
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Cyber Security Watch List for 2014: Seven Trends
The year ahead will be marked by a changing tide of cyber standards—social, legal, and policy—that are raising the bar for provider organizations to protect the integrity of their data. The year ahead will be marked by a changing tide of cyber standards—social, legal, and policy—that are raising the bar for provider organizations to protect…
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Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference
The Background Story A number of months ago, a marketing manager at an EHR vendor asked me if I knew of any Healthcare IT focused marketing conferences. As I considered the question, I realized that there wasn’t a conference focused on B2B healthcare marketing. Sure, there were plenty of general marketing conferences. There were even…
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Avoiding IT HIPAA Hazards
With the passage of the Omnibus Final Ruling in September, 2013, many healthcare IT directors were faced with a seemingly simple question by their organizations’ senior management: “are we or aren’t we HIPAA Compliant .” It seems like a simple question, but ever since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in…
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OCR not fully enforcing HIPAA
The Office for Civil Rights, the agency that enforces privacy provisions of HIPAA, has not fully enforced the law’s requirements, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health &… read more …read more
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Breach Report: Former UPMC Employee Viewed Records Inappropriately
A former employee at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) McKeesport hospital viewed the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 1,300 patients, the health system recently announced. A former employee at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) McKeesport hospital viewed the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 1,300 patients, the health system recently announced. read…
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Inspector general report: The IRS is ready to calculate subsidies but needs to strengthen ability to detect fraud
The report concluded that subsidies could be vulnerable to fraud — marking yet another potential trouble spot for the health law’s implementation. …read more
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Partners HealthCare IT execs: Be proactive to avoid breaches
Organizations must be proactive and adjust their security and privacy approaches frequently to avoid breaches, according to Jim Noga, Vice President and CIO of Boston-based Partners HealthCare. read more …read more
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Two new resources focused on HIPAA compliance
Two new guides are in the works to help organizations with HIPAA compliance, reports Healthcare Info Security. One is a free security risk assessment tool for small providers. A risk assessment is… read more …read more