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• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/9/2009+

  
  OakLeaf Systems — Authority: 487
  Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database ...
  20 hours ago

• Hospital Employees Fired for Alleged Patient Privacy Violations

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  Sixteen employees  were fired for reportedly violating patient privacy laws a Harris County (Texas) Hospital District hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Most of the fired employees included  managers, nurses, clerks who worked at Ben Taub General Hospital. A county employee,   wishing to remain anonymous, told ...
  22 hours ago

• Hoban reports on uneven H1N1 death disclosure

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 431
  WUNC reporter and AHCJ member Rose Hoban put together a story about uneven disclosure of H1N1 deaths by public health officials and the possible benefits and risks of providing more information. In the end, Hoban reported, it comes down to balancing individual privacy and the public interest. On the official side, ...
  1 day ago

• Change: Inevitable and ever challenging

  
  AIIM Knowledge Center Blog — Authority: 123
  Change is inevitable no matter what you do, where you go or how you perceive it. Change happens. The question is how ready you are to accept change, prepare for change, and to implement change. The difference in business is what the change driver might be moving you in new directions. Things like the economic climate, ...
  3 days ago

• HIPAA’s role in liability cases tested in Mich.

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Amy Lynn Sorrel reports: Michigan’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act preempts a state law allowing defendants in medical liability lawsuits to informally interview plaintiffs’ other treating physicians — a move that doctors say could put them at a ...
  3 days ago

• HIPAA’s role in liability cases tested in Mich.

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 137
  Amy Lynn Sorrel reports:Michigan’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act preempts a state law allowing defendants in medical liability lawsuits to informally interview plaintiffs’ other treating physicians — a move that doctors say could put them at a ...
  3 days ago

• Privacy and Security of Electronic Medical Records

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  One of my partners asked if our practice could use free GMail instead of replacing our old and failing mail server (not free) and having to purchase the licensing for the Microsoft software (definitely not free). When I looked into it, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than just deciding between a free mail ...
  3 days ago

• Passing a Data Privacy Bill (NYT Letter to the Editor)

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  Passing a Data Privacy Bill (NYT Letter to the Editor) : Via NYT > Privacy (NYT Letter to the Editor) . To the Editor: I know that the kind of protection you advocated in “Keeping Personal Data Private” (editorial, Nov. 25) is needed, in part because my own medical history became an open book after somebody ...
  3 days ago

• Data Security: HIPAA vs HITECH - Mandating Patient Notification

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  There is a lot of controversy over making data encryption mandatory vs. strongly encouraging it (and being "punished" with notifications in the event of a data breach where encryption was not used, hence "encouraging it"). However, if you take a look at the recent Wentworth-Douglass Hospital debacle, one wonders ...
  5 days ago

• Understanding the Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control Program

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 131
  A Joint Project Between the OIG and DOJBy Patricia Trites; MPA, CHBC, CPCwww.HealthcareFinancials.comThe Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program is a joint project between the Office of Inspector General [OIG] and the Department of Justice (DOJ).FunctionsThe primary functions are to coordinate federal, ...
  6 days ago

• Would You Compromise Your Cancer Cure?

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 107
  Your doctor has good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer in your abdomen. The good news is that it can be cured, using a combination of three drugs and ten radiation treatments. Would you settle for just two of the three drugs? Would you compromise your medical care and take one drug the doctor ...
  1 week ago

• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 518
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
  1 week ago

• 16 Houston Hospital Employees Fired for Snooping

  
  HIPAA, HITECH & HIT — Authority: 99
  Harris County Hospital District, a Houston area health system, has fired 16 employees for HIPAA violations, according to the Houston Chronicle . The employees reportedly accessed the records of a first-year resident being trained at one of the Districts hospitals, following the residents admission for treatment of ...
  1 week ago

• Watchdog Wednesday with Paula Stuart Warren, CG

  
  Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog — Authority: 120
  Minnesota-based genealogist, lecturer, and blogger Paula Stuart Warren, CG, takes aim at the insane results of current privacy laws over at Paulas Genealogical Eclectica .
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• SubroShare®: Is This the New Way to Bring Value to Payer Contract Negotiations?

  
  Manage My Practice.com — Authority: 113
  I recently interviewed Stephen Ambrose, the Founder and CIO of SubroShare®, a database of medical record requests. Steve has a lot of passion for his innovative product and envisions SubroShare® playing a starring role in payer contract negotiations. Mary Pat:  Steve, what is subrogation? Steve: ...
  1 week ago

• About the Scribbos Secure Communication Platform

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 131
  What it is – How it worksBy Staff ReportersScribbos is a secure business communications solution that enables clients to easily and quickly send confidential messages or large files to colleagues, business partners or outsourced service providers.Scribbos uses an intuitive email-like interface that provides secure ...
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• Text Paging Health Information

  
  Dr. Wes — Authority: 531
  I saw this in a recent nursing note: Urine noted to be bloody without clots. Text message sent to 2290 (trauma pager) about hematuria. Patient denies any pain at this time. No doubt patient identification or their room number, was sent to identify the patient (Im not sure which). I suppose a record of the physician ...
  1 week ago

• Promoting the “Minimum Necessary” Rule

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 131
  Understanding HIPAA Security StandardsBy Richard J. Mata; MD, MSwww.HealthcareFinancials.comOne concept that is stressed by HIPAA is the “minimum necessary” rule, which states the minimum use of personal health information [PHI] that can be used to identify a person, such as a social security number, home address, ...
  1 week ago

• i3 An Ingenix Company (United Health Care) Partners With Acurian For Business Intelligence With Clinical Trials Marketing for Investigators

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 548
  United Healthcare has so many entities in healthcare and here is one more, i3 that is partnering with clinical trial company Acurian to provide business intelligence data mining to work towards increasing participants with clinical trials by mining and identifying the individuals.   Ingenix as we all have ...
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• Business associates -- who are you?

  
  Reed Tinsley, CPA — Authority: 123
  It’s never too late to learn the actual definition of a business associate (BA) when it comes to HIPAA. A BA, as defined in HIPAA, means a person who “performs functions or activities on behalf of, or certain services for, a covered entity that involve the use or disclosure of individually identifiable health ...
  1 week ago

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