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The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has released a series of videos to help practices and medical professionals understand the HIPAA regulations. Unfortunately as of today it is not a very well-known resource, each of the 4 videos has less than 75 views. Hopefully with more awareness of this resource, more people will watch the...
In an interview with Howard Anderson over at healthcareinfosecurity.com, OCR’s Leon Rodriguez gives some interesting insight into OCR’s audit program. Some are some highlights of the interview: Due to funding cuts and capacity of KPMG, the firm hired to conduct the audits, the agency may come up short of the 150 planned audits OCR funding...
The proposed meaningful use stage 2 requirements were posted yesterday. The requirements are over 450 pages so we are still going through them and trying to digest them. As of now, two major IT related items jump out at us. The first IT related objective is focused on protecting and securing patient information. In stage...
As John Lynn and Neil Versel have both reported, it looks like the Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 proposal will be out in the next few weeks. One area of interest will be the wording around the use of encryption to protect patient information. Currently the HIPAA and HITECH regulations do not make the use...
There is a lot to know about HIPAA but let’s take a look at 6 things that you must know. HIPAA is not optional A lot of practices feel they are exempt from the HIPAA regulations. This may stem from the fact that “small practices” were granted a 1 year extension to comply with the...
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