Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – March
Top Guest Posts of the Month One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The…
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Twitter #MeaningfulUse Hashtag Highlights
Following #MeaningfulUse this Week Hanging out on Twitter this week in the #MeaningfulUse feed, here are some highlights. New #EHR resource: Stage 2 #EHR #MeaningfulUse Attestation Calculator…
Practical Playbook Merges Public Health/Primary Care Using Health IT
Marrying Public Health and Primary Care Coordination By Brett Coughlin, Health Information Specialist, ONC Marrying public health and primary care coordination to improve population health using…
Latest Ponemon Study Reveals Key Threats
Study Shows “Leaky Bucket” Approach to Managing New Threats By Rick Kam, President & Co-Founder of ID Experts It’s been a year since the HIPAA Omnibus Final…
Patient Information System Recalls
FDA Posts Recall of Computerized Record System William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author While EHRs…
Small Medical Offices Take Lead in Growth of EHR Adoption
< Ongoing Study Shows Increasing Rates of EHR Adoption, Most Notably in Solo and Small Practices SK&A has released its annual “Physician Office Usage of…
Insider Breaches a Growing Risk
Organizations Should Implement Strong Monitoring Plans Steve Spearman, Founder and Chief Security Consultant Ashley Booth, Marketing Coordinator Health Security Solutions Twitter: @HIPAASolutions Eligible providers and their…
HIPAA Enforcement Goes Beyond OCR
HIPAA Enforcement Blind Spots By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting HIPAA enforcement has increased in recent years, but the US Department of Health and…
Announcing the S&I Framework Initiative
New S&I Initiative — Clinical Quality Framework The Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework is a collaborative community of participants from the public and private sectors…