HHS Seeks Input and Comments on HIPAA Audit Process
OCR Issues ICR on HIPAA Audit Program The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and oversees health…
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Telehealth Policy & Reimbursement: What Providers Must Know
What Does It Take to Start a Telehealth Program? There has been a lot of attention on telehealth of late. The recent American Telemedicine Association…
Hard Drives and Disaster Recovery
Your Hard Drive is like a Credit Card Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks Hard drive failure is one of the leading causes…
Count Down to Health Datapalooza IV
The Liberation of Health Data and Health Datapalooza The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services…
Switching EHRs? Three Key Factors To Consider
You REALLY Want to Switch EHRs. Now What? Brad Benson CEO at Health eFormatics A study by Blackbook rankings found that the top 4 reasons that physicians…
HRSA Holds Webinar on EHRs and Smoking Cessation
HRSA Webinar on Using an EHR and Quality Data for Smoking Cessation The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health…
PatientsLikeMe Seeks Participation in New Open Research Exchange Platform
Names Advisory Board forResearch Platform on Patient-Centered Health Outcome Measures Last week PatientsLikeMe announced an open call for medical researchers to be among the first…
EHRs and Saving Money
COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A persistent theme in EHR adoption is…
ONC Releases Direct Implementation Guide to Aid in Interoperability
Common Practices for HISPs, Accrediting Bodies Established for Security and Interoperability Last week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released the…