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HHS’ move to slash HIPAA fines

Morning eHealth

CMS audit turns up more inappropriate meaningful use payments — Early lessons on patient generated health data

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Rochester RHIO transferred its HISP infrastructure and started using Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for clinical data exchange and HISP services.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Evidence for the positive impact of this data on quality, satisfaction, and in some cases cost is thin but growing.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon.

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