HIPAA regulatory compliance info for healthcare today
E-mail is not for every physician. Legal concerns and HIPAA compliance are perceived barriers to using e-mail. They are excuses. There are, however, practical reasons that prevent most docs from considering e-mail. (Source: Physicians Practice)
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To be successful, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs require individually identifiable information about children to be shared among people who are responsible for screening, diagnosis, early intervention, family support, and medical home services. Pediatricians and other stakeholders in the EHDI process often point to federal laws that were passed to ensure privacy and confidentiality in health care and educational programs as major obstacles to achieving efficient and effective EHDI programs. In this article we summarize the provisions of 3 federal laws (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA], the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA], and Part C privacy regulations of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]) that mo…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a reminder to healthcare providers, health plans, clearinghouses and vendors about the approaching January 2011 compliance date for testing transaction standards. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)
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Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “Alfred from Infomd.net recently made the following comment:
If the product you use is CCHIT certified, it is a pretty safe bet to say that they will be certified under the Meaningful Use rule. Meaningful Use is but a subset of what it takes to become CCHIT certified.”
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John, EMR and [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
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Conclusions: This investigation shows high accuracy for using tumor enhancement features on 1-month posttherapy MR imaging to predict residual disease after chemoembolization of HCC. (Source: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR)
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iSALUS Healthcare, one of the country’s top web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management software companies that exclusively focuses on small and medium sized physician practices, today announced the launch of an iPhone mobile application. The new HIPAA-compliant mobile EMR-EHR service allows doctors to access critical patient records and office information from their iPhones. (Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases)
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the branch of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services charged with administering Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), related quality assurance initiatives, and other programs. It is responsible for implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) administrative simplification standards â including the HIPAA Privacy Regulation and HIPAA Security Regulation â as well as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. The CMS is generally considered the largest single health care payer in the United States. The Medicare program provided health care coverage for 45 million Americans in 2008. Total Medicare enrollment in Medicare is expected to reach 78 million by 20…
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Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “This is one of the most heated questions you can ask EMR vendors when considering an EMR. For an EMR vendor, choosing one or the other becomes like a religion. My personal belief is that either model is reasonable. Certainly the SaaS EMR people are correct [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
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