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Video: Protecting Protected Health Information
The eEHR Privacy Debate Continues Staff Reporters According to our colleague Richard Mata; MD, MIS, writing in the premium print-journal Healthcare Organizations [Financial Management Strategies], a...
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Understanding the “Minimum Necessary” Rule
Protected Health Information and HIPAA By Richard J. Mata; MD, MIS, CMP™ [Hon] www.HealthcareFinancials.com One important concept of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] is...
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Encrypt or De-identify PHI
Which One Just Might Work? By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS The United States’ advancement in Healthcare Information Technology, which has the potential to lead to wonderful money-saving cures through...
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Notice of Healthcare Privacy Practices Explained
NPP “Game Changer” Replaced Use of Consents By Richard J. Mata; MD, MS www.HealthcareFinancials.com In its most visible change, the privacy regulations of HIPAA require covered health entities to...
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Do We Have A False Sense of HIT Security?
Data Breaches More Common than Realized By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS Here is an article titled “Report: Healthcare Organizations may have a False Sense of Data Security,” written by Neil Versel for...
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Protecting Personal Health Information [PHI on Talk Radio]
Check out the Xerox Blog Talk Radio By Staff Reporters Federal regulations require that healthcare organizations put new safeguards be put in place to protect a person’s personal health information,...
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Proposed Regulations on HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures
New Rules and Regulations for Covered Healthcare Entities ADVERTISEMENT By HCR@garfunkelwild.com Proposed regulations regarding HIPAA accounting of disclosures have been recently published and are...
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OCR Imposes Penalties for Employee’s Unauthorized Viewing of PHI
By Garfunkel Wild, PC Early in July, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a settlement for $865,500 with UCLA Health System (“UCLAHS”) as a result...
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About [Health] Data Protection
What’s Your Back-up Plan - Doctor? As per a recent study, 32% of data is lost by human errors. However hardware, software, hacks and smack-downs are responsible for remaining 68% data loss. Data...
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Medical Identity Theft on the Rise
Open Up Dentists – and Physicians, Too! By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS If I tell you that your patients’ insurance identities can be sold for $50 each, how much will you trust your employees on Monday, Doc?...
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On e-Claim Only Dental Plans
About their Hidden Costs - I’m Talking PHI Breaches By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS If the rumor is true about Bluebell Ice Cream’s “e-claim-only” dental benefit plan that is to go into effect in March, how...
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Don’t Co-operate with eDR Vendors, Doc!
My Opinion of eDRs and eDR Vendors By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS Don’t cooperate with those you don’t trust, Doc. eDR Stakeholders If you allow Dentrix, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the ADA and other...
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Handling Protected [Cyber] Health Information [PHI]
More on Medical Cyber-Security [By The Doctors Company] *** *** NOTE The guidelines suggested here are not rules, do not constitute legal advice, and do not ensure a successful outcome. The ultimate...
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Emerging New-Wave Cloud Technology for HIPAA
Securing Electronic Communication in the Cloud [By Carol S. Miller BSN MBA PMP] To help hospitals and health systems comply with burdens of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
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On the lack of encryption of ePHI in transmission and at rest
[By Shahid N. Shah MS] ePHI is vulnerable to be compromised in all the states it is in. Whether it is at rest (in databases and files), or in motion (being transmitted through networks), or in use...
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Update on HIPAA Cloud Solutions for Hospitals and Health Systems
New-Wave Technology and PHI [By Carol Miller RN MBA] To help hospitals and health systems comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations, best practices are emerging for...
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On Protected Health Information [PHI]
How Secure is PHI? [By staff reporters] *** *** Conclusion Your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to review our top-left column, and top-right sidebar materials, links, URLs...
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DENTISTRY and Data Breaches
NO LONGER EVEN NOTICED? BY DARRELL PRUITT DDS Data breaches are now so common that hardly anyone in healthcare notices them – especially in dentistry. I imagine that more than half of the data...
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HIT & PHI: The Designated Medical Record Set
By Staff Reporters *** *** The Designated Medical Record Set [DMRS]: Contains medical and billing records and any other records that a physician, hospital, clinic and/or medical practice utilizes for...
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