HIPAA regulatory compliance info for healthcare today
CynergisTek plans to unveil its new HIPAA Audit Readiness Solution Portfolio (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
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This past November, the healthcare industry got its first taste of the new spot-check audits performed by the Office of Civil Rights to enforce HIPAA compliance efforts. Now, in the midst of the OCR pilot program, many providers are wondering if they’ll be among the unlucky few to undergo an OCR audit.
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Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care , Vol. 0, No. 0. (Source: Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care)
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Be warned that practices using Web-based electronic systems that lack appropriate privacy protection, whether by accident or not, could face the same fate. (Source: Physicians Practice)
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Phoenix Cardiac Surgery of Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz., has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a $100,000 settlement and take corrective action to implement policies and procedures to safeguard the protected health information of its patients. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)
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ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, and Dakota State University’s HealthPOINT, the South Dakota Regional Extension Center for Health IT (REC) , today announced that they have jointly provided HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA) and other information security services for 44 healthcare provider locations of organizations belonging to the [...]
Practice Fusion has launched a HIPAA-compliant messaging feature within its EMR to enable physicians, nurses and medical providers to communicate with colleagues outside their practices. Officials say the service replicates intuitive social media-style messaging to improve medical collaboration and ensure the continuity of patient care.
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Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C., of Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz. has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services a $100,000 settlement and take corrective action to implement policies and procedures to safeguard the protected health information of its patients.
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An Arizone cardiac surgery group has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve an investigation into potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In the agreement the surgical group did not offer an admission of liability but did agree to implement a corrective action plan in addition to the payment. [...]
Conclusion:
Lung cancers diagnosed in annual repeat rounds of CT screening, as manifest by the VDT and cell-type distributions, are similar to those diagnosed in the absence of screening.
© RSNA, 2012 (Source: Radiology)
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