The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to...
HIPAA Security Rule
Even an ‘Internal Breach’ is a Breach According to an announcement on its website, Alabama-based DCH Health Systems fired an employee for accessing...
The 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule is a major change for healthcare data interchange. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use...
The Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared that they would allow the use of telehealth...
This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly...
I’ve been writing about the need to do a HIPAA Risk Assessment since it was included as part of meaningful use. Many organizations have been really...
OCR had not assessed the risks, established priorities or implemented controls for the audits to ensure their compliance.
Lynn Scheps is Vice President, Government Affairs at EHR vendor SRSsoft. In this role, Lynn has been a Voice of Physicians and SRSsoft users in Washington...
One good thing that could come out of my post about Meaningful Use Attestation Issues is that it will hopefully awaken providers to realize that meeting the...