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States Prepare for Seamless Exchange of Health Records after Disasters
Four Gulf states have partnered with six states in the East and Midwest to help patients and providers access critical health information when they are unable to visit their regular doctors or hospitals. The initiative is part of an effort to help make sure their residents’ health information is available after a hurricane or other…
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Texas Medical Center Notifies Patients of Breach Affecting 277K
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, a 726-bed full-service medical center, has notified patients of a privacy breach in which portions of their protected health information has been compromised and found in a park as well as other public locations. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, a 726-bed full-service medical center, has notified…
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HIMSS releases health IT data for research, education
Universities and many governments will now have free aceess to 2011 data from the HIMSS Analytics database, which has information about health IT use at about 5,400 hospitals and 26,000 affiliated ambulatory facilities. read more …read more Source: HIMSS releases health IT data for research, education
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WellPoint Dinged $1.7 million by HHS for Health Data Leak
WellPoint, a large health payer headquartered in Indianapolis, will pay $1.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a data breach that left the protected health information (PHI) of 612,402 people accessible to unauthorized individuals over the Internet during the course of a five month period. WellPoint, a large health…
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Texas HIPAA blunder affects 277K
In the biggest HIPAA privacy breach of 2013 – and among the largest to date – Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth is notifying some 277,000 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several hospital microfilms, which were supposed to be destroyed, were found in various public locations. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/texas-hipaa-breach-blunder-affects-277k
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States collaborate on disaster planning for health exchange
Ten states are working on a health exchange so that if a widespread disaster occurs, they'll be prepared to provide records for people displaced from their homes. read more Source: States collaborate on disaster planning for health exchange
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Research roundup: Prevention task force PSA testing recommendations often ignored; Medicaid expansion for minorities; ER and aging population
The authors examined how the growing number of elderly Americans would affect the large and increasing part of non-catastrophic outpatient care. Using Census Bureau and nationally representative survey data, researchers quantified the number of ED visits that would occur if the demographic structure of the U.S. population changed, but everything else remained the same. “We…
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First Edition: July 12, 2013
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including articles on data tracking of doctors and comparing the rollout of the Medicare Part D drug plans to implementation of the federal health law. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130712/First-Edition-July-12-2013.aspx
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Viewpoints: ‘Implosion’ of the ACA; Administration ‘spin machine’; Republicans on ‘search-and-destroy’ mission
July 3 was the quiet afternoon that a deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy announced in a blog post that the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate would be delayed one year. Something about the “complexity of the requirements.” … Even if you are a liberal and support the goals of the Affordable Care Act,…
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CMS to settle payment fight over Gamma Knife
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a new rule that would effectively put to rest a provision inserted into last year’s fiscal cliff bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) to help a U.S. company. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130712/CMS-to-settle-payment-fight-over-Gamma-Knife.aspx