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• HITECH Act Brings High Price for Privacy Breach: Are Healthcare Organizations Ready for Health IT Security Demands?

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 123
  The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, significantly increased the HHS Secretary’s authority to impose higher monetary penalties for HIPAA violations occurring after Feb. 18, 2009. Prior to the ...
  15 hours ago

• Best Practices for the IAM/Compliance Journey

  
  Discovering Identity — Authority: 113
  As explained in my recent post , I am awaiting final publication of a white paper I recently authored, entitled, “ Identity and Access Management – Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance .”  This post is a excerpt from that paper. In the thirteen years since the initial passage of the HIPAA act, practical ...
  18 hours ago

• HIPAA and Video Surveillance of Surgery

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Over the years there have been many… too many…instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients… There was a very interesting, and ...
  1 day ago

• The Role of IAM in HIPAA/HITECH Compliance

  
  Discovering Identity — Authority: 113
  I recently authored a white paper entitled, “ Identity and Access Management – Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance .”  The paper is now in the final editing and formatting process.  As we awaiting the final publishing date, let me share an excerpt from the paper, focused on the key ways IAM enables HIPAA/HITECH ...
  1 day ago

• New EMR Advertiser and 5 Advertiser Renewals

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 424
  I’m really happy to welcome a new advertiser to EMR and HIPAA: Plextra EHR. They have an interesting offering for doctors to be beta testers of their EHR Lite product and get the EHR software for free. It’s pretty interesting to see how all the various EHR vendors are working to get their EHR software to ...
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• HIMSS: Health organizations not prepared for new HIPAA rules

  
  News — Authority: 125
  Following closely on the heels of the publication of an HHS interim final rule that sharply raises civil penalties for HIPAA privacy violations comes a report from HIMSS that healthcare organizations are woefully underprepared to meet the new, tougher HIPAA privacy and security requirements called for in the American ...
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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  3 days ago

• Court: Surviving spouse is “personal representative”

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 132
  Court opinion that the surviving spouse is a personal representative of the deceased for purposes of HIPAA.Alvista Healthcare Center v. MillerSupreme Court of GeorgiaDecided: November 2, 2009CARLEY, Presiding JusticeMary Miller is the surviving spouse of Stanton Miller, who resided in a nursing care facility owned and ...
  3 days ago

• Minnesota Health Care Directive- Disclosure of Health Information Governed by Hipaa

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 134
  A Minnesota Health Care Directive typically does not empower a health care agent to act on behalf of the principle until the principal lacks capacity to make those decisions.  That is why it is a good idea to include specific language within the Health Care Directive that addresses this issue.  Minnesota ...
  3 days ago

• Laptop Heist Exposes Doctors’ Personal Data

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people’s personal data at risk but this time it’s the caregivers — not the patients — who are at risk.November 6, 2009By Larry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
  4 days ago

• HITECH Workshop for Camden-area Hospitals

  
  HIPAA, HITECH & HIT — Authority: 112
  Friday, November 20, 2009 Virtua Center for Learning Classroom A 1200 Howard Blvd. Mt. Laurel, NJ Covered entities will be required to make notifications of certain HITECH security breaches to the affected individuals, newspaper and media outlets in the state as well as the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human ...
  4 days ago

• HIPAA And Surveillance In Hospitals

  
  Realtime Community | IT Compliance — Authority: 106
  Over the years there have been many...too many...instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients...
  5 days ago

• Update on HIPAA Administrative Simplification

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  New Enforcement RulesFederal Register: October 30, 2009 [Volume 74, Number 209]Rules and Regulations – Page 56123-56131From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]DOCID: fr30oc09-12                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESOffice of the ...
  5 days ago

• Insanity

  
  Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog — Authority: 121
  The new issue of Connections: The Hoosier Genealogist from the Indiana Historical Society -- arguably the best genealogical journal between the coasts -- has a fascinating pair of cover stories. The first, by Elizabeth Flynn, details the history of mental health care in the state; the second, by Alan January of ...
  5 days ago

• Formal Complaint

  
  One More Thing — Authority: 122
  November 4, 2009 Dr. Jeffrey M. Casiglia, DMD DMSc Essex Street Dental Medicine 398 Essex Street Salem, Massachusetts 01970 Dr. Casiglia: I am writing to express my complete disappointment and extreme frustration following the interaction I had with your office manager, Lucy Poulin, and yourself, on the evening of ...
  6 days ago

• Healthcare Organizations May Not Be Prepared for HITECH and Other Security Challenges

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Healthcare Organizations May Not Be Prepared for HITECH and Other Security ChallengesHIMSS NewsThe Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society releases its 2nd Annual Security Survey,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Red Flag Rules for HIPAA Delayed Once Again

  
  Benefit Blog — Authority: 112
  Technorati Tags: hipaa,red flag rules,privacy,health privacyFrom the Kilpatrick Stockton Health and Welfare Team:The FTC Red Flags Rule was scheduled to go into effect on November 1, 2009.  However, at the request of members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission is delaying enforcement of the Red Flags Rule until ...
  1 week ago

• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
  1 week ago

• Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Bob Blakley from The Burton Group recently posted a great response to Andrea DiMaio of Gartner Group regarding privacy. There are lots of great viewpoints expressed in Bob’s blog and comments, but I’d like to raise a perspective on privacy that is ...
  1 week ago

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