Patient Engagement and Quality of Medical Records
Patients Play a Vital Role in Improving the Quality of Information in their Medical Records By Erin Poetter Siminerio/ ONC Blog Team , and Jodi…
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Not Just Notes: Using the Cloud for Medical Imaging
Commonly Ordered Medical Images Shared Across Platforms By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity While we think of patient records as a collection of notes…
$800K HIPAA Settlement in Medical Records Dumping Case
HHS Issues Statement on Parkview Health System Settlement Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
Why Disaster Recovery is Important for Healthcare Data
Practices Must Implement Contingency Plans By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity Not only are electronic health records an essential part of new government…
Twitter #HITPrivacy Hashtag Highlights
Following #HITPrivacy this Week This week Healthcare IT News presented the Privacy & Security Forum in San Diego. During the two day full agenda of…
WSJ Article Addresses Password Usage
“Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures” with Implications for HIPAA Compliance By Ed Jones III, Author and President of HIPAA, LLC. Twitter: @HIPAAsafeguards The May…
Apple’s Health App and HealthKit and HIPAA
Will the Hippo Swallow the Apple? By Matt Fisher, Esq Twitter: @matt_r_fisher At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 2, 2014, Apple announced its…
Top Four Challenges for Connected Medical Practices
Connectivity is the Buzzword By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity For physicians’ practices in the 21st century, connectivity is the buzzword. Getting doctors connected…
More Discussion on the Cloud
Proposing New Terminology and Acronyms William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Recent discussion here about…