Articles by Roberta Mullin

Health Innovation December 30, 2015

IBM Says that 2015 is the “Year of the Healthcare Breach”

By Jonathan Krasner – At the end of the year all kinds of publications and organizations publish yearly summaries to review the events of the past 12 months. Much of the time this can be positive publicity for a celebrity, firm, organization or industry. In this case, for healthcare, it is decidedly negative. Why has IBM made this proclamation? According to a company report just released, over 100 million records were compromised in the first half of 2015.

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Health Innovation December 28, 2015

When Does the HIPAA Conduit Exception Rule Apply?

By Gene Fry – The HIPAA conduit exception rule is only applicable to providers of purely conduit services who do not have access to protected health information (PHI) other than infrequently or randomly. For this reason, conduit providers do not have to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). But what exactly is a conduit service, and when does the HIPAA conduit exception rule apply?

General Interest December 25, 2015

Happy Holidays 2015

Today we conclude our annual 12 Days of Christmas posts on HITECH Answers. From all of us at Answers Media Company, have a happy, healthy, and safe holiday.