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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  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 ...
  9 hours ago

• 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 day ago

• Shared Usernames: HIPAA Security No-No

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 145
  Many times in our work with medical facilities and ASCs, we see usernames shared among multiple people. Sometimes this is for (perceived) convenience, sometimes it is because more than one person shares a workstation or terminal and sometimes it is to get around software vendors’ licensing terms to avoid paying ...
  2 days ago

• EMR Bloggers Come and Go, but EMR and HIPAA is Forever

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I always think it’s fun to think back on the last 5 or so years doing this blog. When I first started there was a lot of excitement about HIT blogging. People were just kind of getting into it and there was a lot of interaction between bloggers. Then, it seemed like interest in the subject waned for a while. For ...
  2 days ago

• Notice of Privacy Practices Explained

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  NPP “Game Changer” Replaced Use of ConsentsBy Richard J. Mata; MD, MSwww.HealthcareFinancials.comIn its most visible change, the privacy regulations of HIPAA require covered health entities to provide patients with a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP). The NPP replaces the use of consents, which are now optional, ...
  3 days ago

• EMR and HIPAA Thanksgiving

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  You know you’re a true blogger when you write a post for a holiday like Thanksgiving. Luckily, blog software is so good these days that I wrote this well before Thanksgiving and then just scheduled it to appear. So, I’m likely either: eating, watching or playing football or eating if you’re reading this on ...
  3 days ago

• TX: Hospital workers fired for snooping

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 137
  As an update on the firing of 16 employees of the Harris County Hospital District, KTRK in Houston reports that the employees were from different facilities: nine from Ben Taub, six from Northwest Community Center and one from Holly Hall. And it seems that my hunch that it was a snooping violation was correct. [...]
  4 days ago

• At UMC, audits show privacy lapses are not new

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 137
  Marshall Allen of the Las Vegas Sun is staying all over the UMC breach reported here previously. In today’s commentary, he reviews the findings of past audits of UMC’s HIPAA compliance:University Medical Center, facing a possible FBI investigation for allowing confidential patient information to be leaked to ...
  5 days ago

• Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records : Via Threat Level . A health insurer lost 1.5 million patient records last May but waited six months to disclose the incident. The data, which was stored on a portable disk drive that disappeared from the insurer’s office, was unencrypted and included patient ...
  6 days ago

• HITRUST updates security compliance certification

  
  News — Authority: 127
  The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) is revamping its Common Security Framework Assurance Program, a certification scheme that helps healthcare organizations identify and remedy inefficient practices in security compliance reporting. The new program offers two levels of testing, CSF Validated and CSF ...
  6 days ago

• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 137
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
  6 days ago

• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
  6 days ago

• Health Net healthcare data breach affects1.5 million

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 412
  Image via WikipediaAnother security breach related to healthcare organization which resulted in loss of patient data shows that healtcare organizations poor state of baseline security and simply... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• HITECH HIPAA - HR cant just push the burden onto IT

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
  Every healthcare and HR professional in the US knows about HIPAA. read more
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• HIPAA: The 800-Pound Gorilla

  
  The Buzz Bin — Authority: 119
  Photo courtesy of Kiwanja by Jenn Riggle Let’s just acknowledge the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Social media gives legal departments heartburn. While this is a problem for all industries, it’s an even bigger issue for health care because of a little something called the Health Insurance Portability and ...
  1 week ago

• KRAA Security Makes it to Silicon India Magazine’s si100 Annual Listing

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 160
  Aventura, FL, 18 November 2009 : KRAA Security, the prominent name in providing managed security and consulting services is listed as one of the Top 100 Technology companies founded by Indians in the U.S. The selection and honor has been given by Silicon India Magazine, which has come up with the listing of [...] ...
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• Identity and Access Management - Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance

  
  Discovering Identity — Authority: 122
  The white paper I mentioned several days ago, Identity and Access Management – Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance , is now hot off the press and ready for download.  Thanks to all the great people at Sun Microsystems that contributed to this project and made it a reality.  Hopefully, the paper will be ...
  1 week ago

• SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Does SaaS Diminish the Need for Enterprise Architecture? This is a good question, but we have to understand what is meant by Enterprise Architecture (EA). It is generally accepted to be a discipline and sometimes that strategically aligns an ...
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• HCG Forecast: Fall/Winter 2009 Edition

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  The Health Care Group  By Cheryl SprowsThree new topics in this issue: New Regulations for Business AssociatesNew Breach Notification Requirement under HIPAAWorkplace Harassment – Did you hear the one about?Link: https://www.thehealthcaregroup.com/Productdownloads/2009fallwinterforecast.pdfVisit HCG’s website: ...
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• Federal Judge Sentences Physician And Other Employees For HIPAA Violations

  
  Med Law Blog — Authority: 415
  Contributed by Paul Welk, Esq. pwelk@tuckerlaw.com , 412.594.5536 A federal judge in Arkansas sentenced a physician to one year of probation, a $5,000 fine and 50 hours of community service educating professionals on HIPAA; an account representative to one year of probation and a $2,500 fine; and an emergency unit ...
  1 week ago

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