Rethinking Certification
Current Certification Criteria are Overly Burdensome By John Halamka, MD As stakeholders in payer, provider, and government communities debate the optimal timing of ICD10, Meaningful…
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Will Your Job Survive a Meaningful Use Audit?
How Strong is Your HIPAA Compliance? By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting The Meaningful Use program can help offset technology costs or could cost…
Is Your EHR Stuck in Client-Server Mode?
EHR in the Cloud! A Smart Data Approach that can Avoid Major Storms By Ed Rubinstein, Senior Sales Associate, VersaForm Systems As someone who has…
You Can’t Hide Behind a Business Associate Agreement
What it really means to maintain BA HIPAA compliance By: Tod Ferran, CISSP, QSA Follow him on Twitter @TodFerran During the last few months of…
NIST Workshop November 14-15
Cybersecurity Needs Health Sector Input Seeking: Health sector input into The National Institute for Standards and Technology’s (NIST) national voluntary framework for improving cybersecurity Target…
HIPAA Security Rule Offers Just a Little Leeway
HIPAA Security Rule – Addressable, not Optional! By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting Everyone complains that the HIPAA Security Rule is inconvenient— which it…
HIPAA Business Associate Avoidance and Google Update
By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule (see page 5572) was announced in January, 9 months ago, and was very clear…
ePHI Mobile Security Best Practices
Research Finds PHI Can Be Compromised in One Minute Brandon Barney, CISSP Security Support Manager, SecurityMetrics Follow him on Twitter @Brand_Barney Hundreds of thousands of…
Huge HIPAA Data Breach & 2014 Audits
Avoid a Costly HIPAA Data Breach with a Risk Analysis By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting Do you think that HIPAA is just some…