Securing confidential patient health data for compliance with HIPAA and HITECH is now more important than ever. Successful compliance with these standards can involve many tools, IT components and business practices at significant cost to healthcare organizations. Even with all these initiatives in place, the...
Many years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) promised to overhaul the healthcare industry by, in part, mandating protective measures on sensitive healthcare records. The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules ended up not having the impact many expected.
Years after both rules took...
Healthcare information and specifically Electronic Patient Healthcare (ePHI) has been in the news recently and featured as part of healthcare reform. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) component of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009 has not received as...
When private medical records are breached, healthcare service providers suffer damage to their brand, reputation, loss of trust from their patients, and severe financial repercussions. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandates that appropriate administrative, technical, and...
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