The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights has fined two healthcare organizations for potential HIPAA violations resulting from unencrypted stolen laptops. The healthcare organizations received combined fines of nearly $2 million....
December 31st is fast approaching and if your healthcare organization hasn’t completed your Meaningful Use Risk Assessment for 2013 you’d better get busy. If you miss the deadline, you may have to return a full year of EHR (Electronic Health Record) incentive...
The HIPAA Security Rule was enacted in 1996 by the U.S. Congress, designed to establish national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information used and/or stored by a covered entity. The HITECH act states that all healthcare providers will...
Healthcare providers are increasingly adopting the use of electronic health records (EHRs); however, many of them fail to explain to their patients how they work. It’s crucial for healthcare providers and hospital staff to help patients understand how EHRs work, and...
In theory, the U.S. federal government’s Health Insurance website was designed to make things simpler for residents looking to buy health insurance. However, just 14 days after the launch of www.healthcare.gov, the online initiative was a huge disaster. The...
As the BYOD (bring your own device) trend increases in the workplace, hospitals are finding it necessary to focus more on mobile security. Mobile computer devices and BYOD policies allow healthcare professionals to work from their own personal devices from wherever...
