5 Necessary Steps to Protect Your Patient Data
By Tom Saine – Headlines about hospital data breaches that expose thousands of medical records appear with alarming frequency. Yet even one breach can be devastating.
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5 HIPAA Items that Practices Should Focus on in 2017
By Jim Johnson – With all the recent turbulence in healthcare surrounding Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and now the transition to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, HIPAA has flown under the radar, in a sense, for some practices.
Leveraging the EHR as a Building Block for 3 Key Healthcare Initiatives
By Brent D. Magers – With the advent of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the late 2000s came rampant resistance. Meaningful Use requirements forced healthcare organizations to begin implementing an EHR but many were unhappy about it.
HIMSS Highlights Focused Health IT
Hear all our HIMSS17 Highlights on Healthcare NOW Radio. Here is who I talked to about communications, technical services and solutions, and security.
HIMSS Highlights Focused on Health Information Exchange
Hear all our HIMSS17 Highlights on Healthcare NOW Radio. Here is who I talked to about the on going saga of interoperability. Where are we and will we ever get where we want to be?
Talent Tuesday: Now Hiring!
Welcome to Talent Tuesday. Check back each week as we highlight job opportunities and tips from the healthcare IT recruitment specialists at Pivot Point Consulting. Today’s opportunity is an Epic ClinDoc Analyst.
HIMSS Highlights Focusing on RCM
Hear all our HIMSS17 Highlights on Healthcare NOW Radio. Here is who I talked to about value-based, MACRA, the Quality Payment Program, billing, and patient payments.
CMS Complete List of 2016 Data Submission Timeframes
CMS extends the submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) data submission for the EHR reporting mechanism of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program.
That’s a Wrap on #HIMSS17
Another year, another HIMSS Conference. What did we learn? What did we see? The industry speaks out on their thoughts and takeaways from HIMSS 2017 in Orlando. Here is what we have been reading.