When HIPAA was new, there was an excellent software product available to help home care agencies and hospices conduct risk assessments and perform all the other required duties to achieve Privacy and Security Rule compliance. Known as GetHIP, from Stony Hill Management, it fell by the wayside when our industry noticed that enforcement by the […]
Do You Know What’s in Your Health Record? Share Your Story and Win Cash Prizes The “What’s In Your Record? Video Challenge” [sponsored by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology] invites you to create a short video sharing a personal story about how getting access to view your health record and knowing […]
It can no longer be said that major HIPAA disasters happen to other people, people in the news, not “good agencies like ours.” They did happen to people you know, people just like you, just last month. If it could happen to Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hospice in Chicago and Hartford Hospital and VNA HealthCare in […]
A Review of Electronic Signature Regulations State, national, and international laws and agreements set out clear legal requirements for electronic signatures: Legislatures in at least 46 U.S. states have enacted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act(UETA) since its adoption in 1996 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. These state laws comply and […]
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has announced that it has spent more than $7 million to respond to a security breach that might have compromised members’ personal and health data, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. How did this happen?
When a portable disk drive went missing from a Connecticut office of insurance company and Medicare Advantage contractor Health Net last May, the law required them to notify authorities and affected customers immediately. Instead they kept it under wraps until November. According to an independent security company report, they also lied about it being a […]
