Every day we work with Practice Administrators (PAs) to help them with HIPAA compliance. It is amazing how much responsibility is placed on a PA’s plate. They are involved with hiring and firing of employees, billing, scheduling, personnel issues, insurance issues, patient issues, equipment issues, technology issues, provider issues and compliance issues. It is amazing...
FierceEMR posted a story on how some providers are attesting to meaningful use measures but are actually not addressing all of the required measures. Specifically some providers are stating that they have performed a meaningful use risk assessment on how patient data is being protected but have not actually performed the risk assessment. The article...
It seems that every day it becomes more and more clear that the government is planning on enforcing HIPAA regulations. Patient data privacy and security is becoming their priority. This could have to do with the fact that almost 8 million patients have had their data breached over the past 2 years. And considering that...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they have awarded a $9.2 million contract to the consulting firm KPMG. KPMG will develop the process and perform HIPAA audits. There will be an estimated 150 onsite audits by the end of 2012. The audits are a requirement under the HITECH act and have...
According to a report to Congress from The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), there have been almost 8 million records breached since 2009. That is a staggering number. What is worse it that the number of data breaches continues to increase. Another way of looking at it is that we are only in...
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