Is now time to get serious about information security? More capital please...Hope your practice got the federal incentive money; the cost to implement EHR's may have just gone up. Yikes!
"As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress enacted the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to broaden and increase HIPAA's scope of protecting the privacy and security of personal health information."
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Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes
That post seems kinda spammy.
Jordan Sparks, DMD
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes
The post, news site, or video seems "spammy"?jordansparks wrote:That post seems kinda spammy.
The video I found very informative with respect to covered entities and their business partners all responsible for protecting PHI and the fact each can be separately audited. Watching the video reminded of the article below and fines incurred due to basically "fake" policies and supporting procedures.
"UCLA Health System Pays $865K to Settle HIPAA Violations"
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3pkor8e
Watched the video. Interesting. Not spammy.
Watched the video. Interesting. Not spammy.
Robert M Hersh DMD, FAGD
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