EHR EMR HIPAA Leadership 
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 15, 2023
In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 30, 2020
Usually, HIPAA violations are part of the background noise of the healthcare business, and few are so large that they prove catastrophic for the entity involved. In the following case, however, a health system has incurred a fine that can’t be taken lightly.
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 23, 2023
Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. All clinicians should be equally concerned with patient portal usability as well as the usability of the charting system when choosing an EHR system.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 16, 2024
The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 5, 2019
While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 28, 2023
As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.
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