Joy Pritts, J.D., has been named the first chief privacy officer within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. ONC is a unit within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is carrying out the provisions of the HITECH Act, including beefed up information security...
A federal advisory committee has recommended keeping the information privacy and security requirements untouched in pending criteria for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records to receive Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments.
To make sure their information technology strategies adequately address the needs of physicians, many hospitals have designated a doctor to serve as chief medical informatics officer. These physicians are working closely with CIOs, CSOs and others to help select and implement I.T., including technologies to keep...
A new report validates 89 functioning U.S. health information exchanges that serve multiple organizations in a region. In addition to achieving financial viability, key challenges for emerging exchanges include tackling privacy, security and patient consent issues, according to the report.
If you need one more reason to comply with the breach notification provisions of the HITECH Act, here it is: Enforcement begins February 22. After years of lax enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy and security rules, HITECH spells out several tough enforcement measures,...
The HITECH Act should be a wake-up call to physician group practices of all sizes regarding the need to take data security seriously, a consultant who advises practices stresses. And that means following the right procedures as well as using the right technologies, says Rosemarie Nelson, principal at MGMA Consulting...
The single most important step hospitals should take to comply with the HITECH Act is to retrain all employees, physicians and even volunteers on how to maintain the privacy and security of personal health information. That's the advice of Dan Rode, a regulatory expert at the American Health Information Management...
The spotlight is intensifying on the need to use the latest technologies to ensure the privacy and security of healthcare information, especially electronic health records.
That's largely because the HITECH Act set tougher penalties for violations of the HIPAA security and privacy rules and ramped up enforcement.
The Health Information Trust Alliance has enhanced its HITRUST Common Security Framework for protecting health information to reflect the impact of the HITECH Act.
Every IT vulnerability survey of the past 10 years has had the same item at the top of the list: internal personnel our so-called trusted workers. Billions of dollars, countless vulnerability assessments, thousands of innovative security solutions later, and we still haven't moved the trusted worker off the top of the...
Whether a hospital has a chief information security officer is dependent, in large part, on the size of the facility.
For example, while many academic medical centers have a CISO and a team of security experts, many community hospitals, faced with budget constraints, do not. Instead, the CIO and members of his...
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