January 25, 2012 | In: drug, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health, Health Care, health IT, HIPAA, Medicare Law
In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama made just one explicit mention of the 2010 health law. Here is a transcript of the few parts of his speech that mentioned health care issues: Innovation also demands basic research. Today,...
January 24, 2012 | In: Health, Health 2.0, Health Care, health IT, HIPAA, Physician
It’s easy to make predictions about health IT for the year to come, but what if someone asked what your IT wishes were for 2012? What would you like to see happen most in the health IT space? We asked Wendy Whittington, MD, a practicing pediatrician...
October 18, 2011 | In: Health Care, health IT, HIPAA, Hospital
This is the fourth article in a five-part series designed to spur you toward privacy and security policies that will help your organization achieve HIPAA compliance. So far, we've covered risk assessment, Trojans andcoordinating information across...
September 21, 2011 | In: HIPAA, Hospital, Medicare Law
HIPAA Compliance: The objective behind Sensitivity in maintaining individual health record of every person is too significant and this is what gets ensured under HIPAA security compliance, which aims at protecting an individual’s information to be...
September 12, 2011 | In: Education Transcription, EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, HIPAA
Since the advent of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the more recent Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, healthcare providers have worked to create effective and creative...
