Sue Brown is a home care agency administrator known for her relentless pursuit of excellence through technology and training. A former president of the Colorado Association for Home Care, and still a sometime lobbyist, her agency, Home Care of the Grand Valley in Grand Junction, was the first to receive a Medicaid payment for […]
The Final HIPAA/HITECH Act Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, Enforcement, and GINA “Omnibus” Rule was released from OMB to the Federal Register late on the afternoon of January 17 and published in the Federal Register on Friday, January 25. The 563-page rule becomes effective (and publishable in the Code of Federal Regulations) on Tuesday, March 26, […]
The Final HIPAA/HITECH Act Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, Enforcement, and GINA “Omnibus” Rule was released from OMB to the Federal Register late on the afternoon of January 17 and published in the Federal Register on Friday, January 25. The 563-page rule becomes effective (and publishable in the Code of Federal Regulations) on Tuesday, March […]
What we in healthcare have been watching for more than a year finally broke through into the mass media on Monday, October 1, the day Medicare began to issue penalties to hospitals with high readmission rates. Thick books, lengthy blogs and hours of conference presentations were compressed into a few paragraphs for public consumption. […]
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 […]
