By Steve Spearman – HHS has released a guide to writing a contractual agreement with business associates. In it, they include ten requirements for your contract to meet, and even provide an example contract to give an impression of how these requirements can fit together.
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By Steve Spearman. Earlier this summer, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a paper titled Impact of the HITECH act on physicians’ adoption of electronic health records, that analyzed how well HITECH has incentivized doctors to make the leap into EHR.
By Steve Spearman – Performing a risk analysis is the cornerstone of HIPAA compliance, so it’s important to understand the regulations that require risk analysis, as well as how to conform to these rules. This week’s Q&A with Steve Spearman, focuses on understanding the essentials of risk analysis.
By Steve Spearman – In this week’s Q&A, HIPAA Chat host Steve Spearman spoke with Mike Pearson, information security expert, about the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability scanning and how these techniques can facilitate HIPAA compliance.
By Steve Spearman – This past summer, the state of Colorado’s Medicaid program, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), accidentally sent letters containing PHI to the wrong addresses, affecting individuals from 1,069 households.
By Steve Spearman – If you haven’t heard, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently agreed to pay a $218,400 settlement to HHS for HIPAA violations, in addition to implementing a “Corrective Action Plan”.
By Steve Spearman – Conventional wisdom says that you’re trying to work with a patient’s health care analytics, you’ve got to use “clean data”. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, “clean data” is personal data your patient has generated on social media, but with all of the irrelevant or contradicting data removed in an attempt to make get the most accurate health information possible.
By Steve Spearman – On July 8, 2015, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Brighton, Massachusetts, agreed to pay $218,400 to the Department of Health and Human Services in a HIPAA violation settlement.
Lee Kim, Director, Privacy and Security for HIMSS North America, joins us on our next HIPAA Chat to share her insights on the topic of cyber security and discuss some of the results of a recent survey conducted by HIMSS.