HHS begins HIPAA privacy and security audits 5/10/2012 As you may recall, the HITECH Act required Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency in charge of administering HIPAA, to affirmatively conduct periodic audits to ensure that covered entities...
Proposed stage 2 meaningful use rule includes potential exceptions 5/3/2012 Eligible professionals who have been frustrated by the requirements of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program (the Program or Meaningful Use) were offered some (potential) relief in CMS's new proposed...
OCR settles HIPAA case for $100k 4/26/2012 On April 17, 2012, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery (PSC) for alleged violations of the...
HHS and BCBST settle HIPAA case for $1.5 million 3/28/2012 On March 13, 2012, HHS announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay HHS $1.5 million to settle potential violations of the HIPAA privacy and security...
NIST release EHR evaluation guidance 3/22/2012 An important aspect of any product is how easily someone can use it for its intended purpose, also known as usability. Electronic health records (EHR) that are usable have the potential...
Study: Small medical offices lead in EHR adoption growth 3/13/2012 Smaller practices are no longer lagging in EHR adoption, said Dave Escalante, Vice President and General Manager of SK&A and OneKey. The federal government's offer of reimbursements of up to $64,000...
Future Health announces new EHR resource center 3/7/2012 Future Health announced today a new service to provide training and coaching for DCs looking to qualify for the EHR/ARRA incentive of up to $44,000.00 over 5 years. The service is...
"Meaningful Use" rules driving healthcare sales of handheld devices 2/15/2012 The EMR incentive program, created by Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2009 to boost paperless medicine, was specifically designed not to reward mere purchases of software. To qualify for federal...
Audits heat up HIPAA liability 2/9/2012 The OCR compliance audits will be conducted by KPMG LLP and generally will consist of an initial document request, an onsite visit by the auditors, and then negotiation of an audit...
Health 2.0 teams with ONC for 'EHR Accessibility Module Challenge' 2/3/2012 Health 2.0 is proud to launch these three new Developer Challenges. The burgeoning Developer Challenge program has witnessed a tremendous increase in both number and quality of competition submissions, said Indu...
11 trends for healthcare data in 2012 1/5/2012 Industry experts representing healthcare law, privacy, security, regulatory and data breach were asked to forecast healthcare data trends for 2012. The overall forecast? Protecting patients' protected health information (PHI) should be...
Extension offered for EHR Stage 2 requirements 12/9/2011 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a report showing that doctors adoption of health information technology (IT) doubled in two years....
HHS announces 100,000 care providers are adopting EHRs 11/18/2011 The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to help improve their...
Financial impact of sharing electronic health info focus of study 11/8/2011 The Financial Impact of Health Information Exchange on Emergency Department Care, led by Mark Frisse, M.D., MBA, professor of Biomedical Informatics, is the nation's first city-wide study of the impact of...
Study compares US, EU healthcare privacy laws 10/27/2011 Electronic health records can potentially save billions of dollars in health care costs and increase patient safety, but have considerable risks to individual privacy in the United States, more so than...
Survey: Healthcare industry leader in adopting in desktop virtualization tech 9/30/2011 Imprivata announced that in a recent cross-industry survey conducted among 477 IT decision makers, the healthcare sector, often regarded as a technology laggard, emerged as the leading adopter of desktop virtualization...
U Cal settles HIPAA privacy and security case 7/8/2011 The complaints alleged that UCLAHS employees repeatedly and without permissible reason looked at the electronic protected health information of these patients....
US official says skilled tech talent key to EHR success 6/28/2011 In a recent keynote address at a UNCG-hosted conference, an official from the U.S. Health Information Technology Research Center noted there are 30,000 healthcare organizations in the U.S. planning or implementing...
Frequently asked questions about the EHR incentive program 6/13/2011 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) maintains a list of frequently asked questions regarding Medicares Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program....
Future Health receives backing from Midwest venture capital company 6/6/2011 Future Health Acquisition Inc. announced it has received the backing of a substantial seven-figure investment led by Midwest venture capital companies, including funds managed by Bluestem Capital Company....
Cornell: EHRs reduce errors, but doctors find the switch difficult 5/31/2011 As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the government is investing billions of dollars to encourage health care providers to use electronic health record systems. Many providers...
Payment matters: Attestation system for Medicare EHR incentive program now open 5/3/2011 Under Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals that demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology will receive incentive payments from Medicare....
VA begins process to create open source EHR 4/11/2011 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) aimed at forming an Open Source community around its ground-breaking VistA (Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture) electronic...
ONC announces public comment period on Health IT Strategic Plan 4/7/2011 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (the Plan). The Plan reflects ONC's...
ONC announces public comment period on Health IT Strategic Plan 4/7/2011 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (the Plan). The Plan reflects ONC's...
EHR body awards first certifications 3/30/2011 The federal government, under the Department of Health and Human Services, requires the meaningful use of electronic health record systems to improve health care coordination, boost quality of care for patients...
New study estimates cost to implement EHR systems 3/18/2011 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 made a significant investment to encourage the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare providers....
HIPAA conference to be held in May 3/10/2011 The conference, “Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security,” will be held May 10–11 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The conference is co-hosted...
Free webinar: Best practices for optimizing your EHR investment 2/17/2011 Aternity Inc., the industrys technology leader in end user experience management solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, announced today that it will join Hayes Management Consulting & Sharp HealthCare to deliver the...
CMS offers new resource on qualifying for EHR bonus 1/31/2011 This year marks the first time that providers can obtain incentive bonuses for using an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and meeting all of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program requirements....
Digital privacy lawsuits increase in 2010 1/26/2011 According to the Information Law Group, which concentrates on legal issues around privacy, data security, information technology and e-commerce, 2010 was a banner year for privacy-related lawsuits. And it may just...
Law group offers white paper for providers considering EHRs 1/6/2011 William OToole, Esq., founder of the OToole Law Group (OLG), announced recently that OLG is offering a complimentary white paper to healthcare providers who are considering the purchase of an electronic...
NIST partners with ONC and AHRQ to deliver guidance on EHR usability 12/14/2010 In coordination with its federal partners, NIST published the following guides to support EHR system developers in demonstrating evidence of the use of key elements of user-centered-design principles and to support...
National EHR safety system launched by non-profit 12/3/2010 Using a standardized online format, EHRevent will collect reports from physicians and other health care providers who use EHRs and create reports that medical societies, professional liability carriers and government agencies,...
Future Health eConnect named clinic software for Palmer 11/17/2010 Palmer College of Chiropractic--the first chiropractic college in the world, with more graduates than any other chiropractic college--recently announced that it has chosen Future Health eConnect as its new clinic EHR/practice...
HHS strengthens health Info privacy through new rules 11/9/2010 HHS has launched a privacy website at http://www.hhs.gov/healthprivacy/index.html to help visitors easily access information about existing HHS privacy efforts and the policies supporting them....
Future Health eConnect named an OSCA EHR software partner 10/27/2010 “Earlier this year, the board members of the Congress of Chiropractic State Associations unanimously voted to align with Future Health in creating added value for state association members,” said Future Health...
Document security and EHR 10/13/2010 One of the most common questions chiropractors and patients alike have about electronic health records (EHR) is how records stay “safe.”...
Federal health IT coordinator announces final extension centers 9/28/2010 "The selection of these final awardees means that Regional Extension Centers are now in place in every region of our country to help health providers make the switch from paper-based medical...
Future Health provides free webinar for chiropractors 9/14/2010 Dr. Steven Kraus, founder and chairman of Future Health, Inc., is offering a free one-hour webinar on the up to $44,000 ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) incentives doctors of chiropractic...
EHR certifying bodies announced for EHR software 9/7/2010 HHS named the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group as organizations qualified to test and certify EHR systems as capable of meeting the meaningful use criteria...
West Virginia county adopts personal health record strategy 8/26/2010 August 25, 2010 - Patients of Primary Care, a rural clinic in Clay County, West Virginia now have the ability to review medical information and contribute to their healthcare through a...
Accelerating EHRs adoption and meaningful use 8/5/2010 The following joint statement, by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Principal Deputy Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, was issued...
Can EMRs cut it alone? 7/27/2010 Ensuring essential support in the wake of the upcoming healthcare reforms the adoption of EMR systems will aid healthcare providers to provide safe and high quality care as they tackle the...
PricewaterhouseCoopers releases wide ranging EHR report 7/13/2010 A year and a half after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated billions of dollars to help hospitals and doctors purchase equipment to computerize patient medical records, even the most...
EHR association elects new leadership 6/24/2010 The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association) today announced its new chair and vice chair, along with Executive Committee election results based on voting by the full membership during May...
Future Health announces free EHR/practice management software 6/3/2010 Future Health, Inc., the nations number one provider of chiropractic EHR/practice management software -- today unveiled its newest product for doctors of chiropractic, Future HealthTM eConnect, adding that the base software...
Greenbranch releases new edition of EHR implementation book 5/21/2010 Greenbranch Publishing announces the Second Edition of the breakthrough book for practices eager to minimize the costs, confusion and outright risks of choosing and implementing an Electronic Medical Record system....
Institute helps assess value of investment in health info tech 5/12/2010 As the United States moves toward the goal of a secure nationwide health information network (NHIN), a new study from the Regenstrief Institute provides a framework for evaluating the costs, effort...
New tech removes manual entry burden from EHRs 4/29/2010 Providers and medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) who use Emdat can now populate EMRs with information entered by transcriptionists rather than physicians, allowing doctors to focus on patient care and potentially...
USF wins $5.9 million for EHR project 4/20/2010 The University of South Florida (USF) will help doctors across West Central Florida move towards electronic health records, with the support of a $5.9 million grant in federal stimulus funds, university...
Future Health appoints CTO 4/12/2010 The nations number one provider of chiropractic software -- Future Health, Inc. -- announced today it appointed Robert E. Standefer III as chief technology officer....
EHR Association responds to meaningful use proposals 4/1/2010 The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association) has submitted its detailed responses on two major regulations that implement healthcare IT incentive provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of...
HIPAA webinar nears 3/25/2010 Iron Mountain Incorporated, an information management services company, will sponsor a Webcast on March 31 that will help attendees understand recent updates to the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...
AMA to team with Dell for EHR info platform 3/24/2010 The American Medical Association (AMA) and Dell announced that they are collaborating to help physicians adopt useful health information technology such as electronic medical records (EMR), ePrescribing, and laboratory services through...
Security and EHRs: Smart cards coming soon? 3/9/2010 Electronic health records (EHR) are being heralded by the Obama Administration and many within the health profession as a way to improve record keeping and prevent inaccurate medical records....
Journal: E-systems reducing doctor errors 3/1/2010 According to the study's authors, demonstrating improvements in safety with electronic prescribing is important to encourage its use, especially among community providers in solo and small group practices who mostly...
Patients report increased use of EHRs in survey 2/12/2010 The health IT landscape has changed fundamentally in the first year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law. American patients are seeing their doctors make the switch...
US issues standards to spur EHRs 1/21/2010 U.S. health officials released standards for electronic medical records on Wednesday, seeking to spur the technology in hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors....
Tennessee to recieve matching funds for EHR incentive program 1/7/2010 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Tennessee's Medicaid program is set to receive matching federal funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive...
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