By Art Gross – On September 2, 2015 The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing a $750,000 HIPAA settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C. This large fine offers some very important lessons. Let’s take a closer look:
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By Taha Kass-Hout, Roselie A. Bright & Ann Ferriter – OpenFDA is releasing information on medical devices that could spur innovation and advance scientific research. OpenFDA’s Application Programming Interface (API) expands on the previous openFDA resources concerning medical device-related adverse events and recalls by incorporating information from the medical device product life cycle.
Compliance date is October 1, 2015. Visit the CMS ICD-10 website for the most current information. Make sure your practice is prepared by following the ABCs of ICD-10
By Matt Fisher – It often seems as though a day does not go by without the report of a new breach of healthcare data. Examples of breaches include loss of unencrypted devices (whether laptops, flash drives or other devices), usage of non-secure services, inattention to paper records, employee snooping, and more.
By John Halamka MD – Thinking about a recent New York Times article, I’ve put together a top 10 guide for IT leaders to avoid the decline into misery at work while keeping their livers intact.
By Patty O’Toole – Black Book Rankings, a healthcare-centric market and public opinion research company, conducted an annual ambulatory user poll to determine the highest-ranked Electronic Health and Medical Record organizations for 2015.
By Bennett Lauber. Having these two events at the same time is rather inconvenient because we’d really like to be in full attendance for both of these. However, seeing both of these show up on my Outlook calendar on the same week got me thinking about usability and accessibility in telehealth.
By John Halamka MD – In many previous posts, I’ve written about the importance of enabling infrastructure to accelerate interoperability. The standards are not the rate limiting step, but the lack of a provider directory, patient identifier, and consent registry are.
By Steve Spearman – In this week’s Q&A, HIPAA Chat host Steve Spearman spoke with Mike Pearson, information security expert, about the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability scanning and how these techniques can facilitate HIPAA compliance.