Turn Your HIPAA Security Rule Compliance Around
HIPAA Security Rule Can No Longer Be Ignored By Mike Semel, Semel Consulting Health care organizations that have ignored the HIPAA Security Rule; businesses that…
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Health Fidelity Receives NSF Grant to Support Big Data Research
Grant will support use of big data to meet or exceed quality of care requirements Health Fidelity, a healthcare big data company and technology leader…
AHIMA Testifies Before ONC On Improving Accuracy of EHR Systems
Makes Recommendations for Improving Clinical Documenation in EHR Systems American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) represents a membership of over 67,000 health information management…
BPC Releases Recommendations on Oversight for Patient Safety and Health IT
Calls for Continued Innovation in Health IT to Protect Patients Yesterday the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released An Oversight Framework for Assuring Patient Safety in…
ONC’s First Google+ Hangout on Health IT Challenges a Success
ONC and others discuss Interoperability, Health IT Challenges Yesterday the Office of the National Coordinator hosted it’s first ever ONC Google + Hangout. Led by…
New Survey Shows Personal Use Impact on Cloud Computing Adoption
Survey Looks at Cloud Computing for 2013 Technology products and services company CDW has released its 2013 State of the Cloud Report. The report provides an assessment of…
WEDI Looks To Advance Progress of Health Information Exchange
WEDI offers free membership to government agencies The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
EHRs By Themselves Will Not Eliminate Paperwork
Paperwork in an EHR-enabled medical office Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems come with the vision of eliminating paper in a…
Strengthening Your HIPAA Business Associate Chain
You aren’t alone in protecting patient data Electronic data has created the opportunity to lose thousands of patient records in just a few seconds. Enforcement…