HIPAA Compliant Emails: Myths and Facts
By Mike Semel Understand What Constitutes HIPAA Compliant E-mail Every day I get questions about HIPAA compliant e-mail, and many days I see or hear…
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Universal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor A recent blog posting calls for a “universal EMR” for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example…
Workforce Group of the ONC Health IT Policy Committee Makes Its Recommendations
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor For the last nine months, I have had the opportunity to be part of a workgroup of…
Why Health IT Security Grows More Complex
Former DoD Cyber-security Analyst Addresses HIPAA Security Challenges By Anthony Brino, Associate Editor Government Health IT HHS’s Office of Civil Rights is starting enforcement of…
Will UDI Capability Be Incorporated into EHR Certification?
EHR Meets UDI COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Unique Device Identification (UDI) is a…
The Road to Big Data Passes Through Informatics
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health…
The Myth of EHR Data Validation
William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Various EHRs require a user to “validate” some elements of information (data) before they…
HIPAA Data Breach: Protect your data storage devices, backups, and train your staff
Don’t Join the HIPAA Data Breach ‘Wall of Shame’ Mike Semel Semel Consulting In compliance with the HIPAA Data Breach Notification Rule, more than 570 HIPAA data breaches…
Analysis of Latest Meaningful Use Attestation Numbers
Trends in EHR Vendor Strength Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD On April 2nd, 2013, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made available…