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 [...]
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
Five Tips to Prepare for HITECH Act Compliance in 2011
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The following guest post by Ruby Raley, Director of Healthcare Solutions, Axway The healthcare industry is incented to adopt EMR/EHR systems by the HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. HITECH offers funding to incent providers to use EMRs/EHRs in ways meaningful to the improvement of patient health by 2015. [...]
Smart Card Alliance Endorses Health IT Privacy and Security Tiger Team Recommendations
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Smart Card Alliance announced today it strongly endorses the Electronic Health Record (EHR) privacy authentication recommendations made by the HIT Policy Committee Privacy and Security Tiger Team. The group proposed rules it deems as necessary to provide a suitable trust framework for information exchange between EHR systems. Specifically, the Alliance agrees with the team’s recommendation that [...]
Practice Fusion, Microsoft Offering Free De-identified Dataset to Health Researchers
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion’s Research Division has teamed up with Microsoft’s Windows Azure MarketPlace to offer a set of de-identified health information to researchers entirely for free. The companies announced this news as part of the Windows Azure MarketPlace launch today at Microsoft PDC. The clinical dataset provided by Practice Fusion’s Research Division includes insight on vitals, diagnoses, [...]
Memorial Hospital Selects DigitalPersona Pro to Enhance HIPAA Security
August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and endpoint protection solutions, today announced that Memorial Hospital of Union County, Marysville, OH., has selected the DigitalPersona® Pro endpoint protection suite to help meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for secure access to electronic health records (EHR). DigitalPersona’s centrally-managed biometric authentication solution allows [...]
Excellent new guide for Practitioners migrating to EMR – the HIPAA Survival Guide
August 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Deborah Leyva emailed me last week with information about a new HIPAA Survival Guide for Practitioners (the download link is on the left side of the page) that she and her attorney husband Carlos have produced. They published the guide specifically for Practitioners to help them better understand the implications of the migration to [...]
Is there an IT Doctor in the House?
July 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Is there an IT Doctor in the house? That is the question that many healthcare providers large and small may soon be asking themselves. Why? “It’s not for the reasons that you might think,” according to Judith Buckardt, president of Konsultek, an information security firm headquartered in Chicago. It’s not for the reasons that you [...]
How Hospice & Pallative Care Center Secures EMR Records
July 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
North Carolina-based Secure Designs, Inc. has installed a new secure remote access system for Winston-Salem’s Hospice & Palliative CareCenter. The system allows nurses, social workers and chaplains to access electronic medical records in the field as they provide in-home support for patients. As a result, the CareCenter has been able to make substantial advances in [...]
Is EMR Adoption Opening the Door to Medical Identity Theft?
June 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
A 2007 federal report on crime — the most recent year for which data are available — found that more than 250,000 U.S. residents annually are victims of medical identity theft, the New York Times reports. Pam Dixon — executive director of World Privacy Forum and author of a 2006 medical identity theft report — [...]
