Protecting Patient Information
How would Your Practice Protect Kim’s Information? By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Recently, several employees of Cedars Sinai Medical Center were fired for improperly accessing…
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What are Your EHR Plans for the Next 12 Months?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The next twelve months present serious EHR scheduling challenges to medical practices. You need to manage and consider the critical…
Should you be using Email for Patient Service?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Security Rules allow you to communicate with emails that include Protected Health Information as long as the patient…
Should You Take a Second Look at Your Business Associates?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Omnibus rules significantly affect Business Associate (BA) relationships and will require an adjustment to your Business Associates Agreement…
How Do You Perform An Appropriate Security Risk Analysis?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The Meaningful Use Measures include a Security Risk Analysis. The Security Risk Analysis evaluates your practice’s compliance with the HIPAA…
HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule Goes Into Effect
HIPAA Omnibus Effective Today The final HIPAA Omnibus rule enhances a patient’s privacy protections, provides individuals new rights to their personal health information, and strengthens…
Will HIPAA Omnibus’s Impermissible Disclosure and Use Standards Complicate Your Compliance Efforts?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Omnibus Rules, released in January 2013, will dramatically affect how you manage and deal with the impermissible disclosure…
Integrating Practice Productivity Issues with an EHR Training Strategy
What are the Key EHR Training Strategies? Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Author: Keys to EMR/EHR Success Too many practices are struggling with performance and productivity…
Monitoring and Maintaining Meaningful Use Measures
How Can You Achieve and Attest to Meaningful Use? Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Author: Keys to EMR/EHR Success In order to qualify for the Medicare…