Articles by Roberta Mullin

Health Innovation December 31, 2015

Finding a New Security Framework

By Steve Spearman – In a recent article titled How One Hospital Made a Security Framework Work for Them, security consultant Brian Evans says that it is common for organizations in the healthcare industry to have such a hard time compensating for the weaknesses of its current security framework, that it does not have the time needed to select a new one.

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.

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?

Health Innovation, Patient Engagement December 28, 2015

Engaging Patients and Lowering Readmissions by Focusing on Transitional Care

By Walter Rosenberg & Jessica Grabowski – Hospital readmission rates in the United States are among the highest in the world. In 2011, there were 3.3 million 30-day readmissions to the hospital, which contributed more than $41 billion in hospital costs.