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Treat Protected Health Information like gold
To secure Protected Health Information first get your people to respect it If you use your imagination you can get your workforce and management to understand the importance of Protected Health...
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The Number One HIPAA Requirement – the HIPAA Risk Analysis
HIPAA Risk Analysis and Your Critical Starting Point The HIPAA Risk Analysis is so important that it is the first item defined in the HIPAA Security Rule, a requirement since 2005. It forms the basis...
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HIPAA Compliant Practices Earn Meaningful Use Money
Being HIPAA Compliant is not a Snapshot in Time Meaningful Use requires you to protect patient data. Protecting patient information is like protecting patient safety; it is something you have to do...
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HIPAA Compliance and Meaningful Use Tech Tips
HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 1 of 2 Technical Requirements You May Not Understand HIPAA Compliance can be a mystery. It can be even more mysterious when you don’t understand technology. When you...
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HIPAA Compliance & Meaningful Use Tech Tips (part 2)
HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 2 (for the first of this 2-part series click here) More critical components of a HIPAA compliant computing environment… Encryption While encryption is Addressable for...
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STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and other tests to find out what is going on under...
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Will a Meaningful Use Audit Ruin Your Career?
Will Your Job Survive a Meaningful Use Audit? The Meaningful Use program can help offset technology costs or could cost your hospital or practice millions of dollars. It could also cost you your...
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HIPAA and Interoperability
HIPAA security and interoperability depend on one another. The federal government is pushing hard for both providers and vendors to adopt interoperability. Partly as a result, new HIPAA regulations...
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Another HIPAA Breach As Audits Ramp Up
Another day, another massive HIPAA breach and eye-popping fine. On September 2, the government announced that a practice in Indiana has agreed to pay $750,000 in fines after a laptop was stolen from...
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The Future of HIPAA Compliance
The future of HIPAA compliance will bring more demanding electronic security regulations for healthcare organizations—or at least, that’s my prediction. But there are good reasons for making this...
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