Jan 19, 2016 | HSN, Meaningful Use
Last week, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), spoke at a health care conference. The text of his speech can be found here. His remarks touched on many subjects including Meaningful Use. The MU program is...
Jan 11, 2016 | HSN, Policies and Procedures
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued guidance regarding an Individual’s Right under HIPAA to Access their Health Information. The link should be bookmarked by all organizations as a reference for future guidance, questions and answers:...
Jan 4, 2016 | HSN, Policies and Procedures
CMS announced in a blog post that HHS has modified HIPAA to strengthen the firearm background check system. Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved forward on commitments made by President Obama to curb gun violence across the nation....
Dec 22, 2015 | Breach, HIPAA Fine, HSN, Risk Assessment
At the end of the year all kinds of publications and organizations publish yearly summaries to review the events of the past 12 months. Much of the time this can be positive publicity for a celebrity, firm, organization or industry. In this case, for healthcare, it...
Dec 3, 2015 | Breach, HSN, Risk Assessment
Computerworld has an excellent article called Healthcare security and HIPAA: Why compliance and security are still lacking. The author does a very good job of trying to figure out why there are so many healthcare related data breaches. Here are some highlights: The...
