The following is a guest post was provided by Casper Manes on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. Health care practices, laboratories, and insurance agencies all found their worlds radically changed with the passage of HIPAA. Years later, people are still trying to figure out whether or not what they do meets the requirements of HIPAA [...]
ChartSwap, a cloud-based medical record exchange solution, set to go-live January 23, 2012
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ChartSwap, a Houston-based SalesForce ISV Partner, will go-live with an interesting new online record ordering and exchange solution. ChartSwap, which is built on a Force.com platform, offers healthcare providers free access to a HIPAA-compliant electronic chart exchange network that they claim will drastically reduce the administrative burden associated with responding to third-party requests for medical [...]
LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive Allows Salt Lake VA Medical Center to Secure Medical Records, Go Paperless with Cardiac Tests
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Systematic Development Group has announced the roll-out of its LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive® at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The encrypted flash drive’s implementation now allows cardiologists to electronically review medical reports for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). Prior to implementing LOK-IT, the center’s [...]
New HIPAA Tool Helps Organizations Meet Security Requirements
November 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
A new tool, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and offered for free, can help public and private organizations, large and small, to understand and implement the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. Congress enacted HIPAA to, among other things, promote efficiency in the health [...]
Independence Blue Cross and NaviNet Team Up to Make it Easy for Providers to Comply with Future Federal Mandates
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and NaviNet announced today that their shared strategy to ensure providers are well-positioned to meet federal mandates has resulted in a joint upgrade offering for physician practices to transition to HIPAA 5010 compliance using NaviNet PM (Practice Management). In addition to making providers HIPAA 5010-compliant, the NaviNet PM solution gives healthcare [...]
Product Review: HIPAA Compliant Faxing from GFI FaxMaker
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you are growing tired of maintaining your ancient analog fax machine with its phone line connection, cover sheets, sensitive information left sitting in the output tray, and all the other things that make most IT and security folks loathe the word fax, then you are going to love the idea of fax server software. [...]
Free HIPAA Compliance Secure Web Email is Available by HealthCollaborate
July 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Health Business Intelligence Corp (Health BI) announces the availability of secure web email for health care professionals and patients on HealthCollaborate. HealthCollaborate secure web email enables health care organizations to securely send and receive messages with Patient Information attachments. Patients can also receive secure emails from their physician offices, hospitals, ancillary providers and insurance companies. [...]
New Whitepaper: Mobile Health and Security – Ten Questions you Should ask Before Implementing an mHealth Solution
April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In today’s healthcare regulatory climate, protecting personal information stored and shared through mobile healthcare (mHealth) solutions is becoming a big issue for healthcare providers, payers and vendors. Diversinet Corp. has released a interesting white paper titled Mobile Health and Security – Ten questions you should ask before implementing an mHealth solution. The document can help [...]
Chiropractors Must Get Ready for HIPAA 5010 or Expect No Pay in 2012, Says Dr. Tom Necela of The Strategic Chiropractor
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Chiropractors who utilize electronic billing must convert to the new HIPAA 5010 format by January 1, 2012 or risk not being paid by all third party payers, including Medicare. In spite of the potentially disastrous financial consequences that may occur if a practice is not prepared, most chiropractors have not even started to test their [...]
Practice Fusion (finally) Previews Native Mobile Application for Doctors at Health 2.0
Practice Fusion is finally getting into the app business and is debuting a prototype of its native iOS mobile application for the iPhone at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Practice Fusion currently has iPhone and Android applications in private beta testing. The mobile solutions will provide a free, lightweight and secure way for [...]