The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus bill made quite a few amendments to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which was enacted in 1996. The most important and noticeable changes include the expansion of enforcement to states’ attorneys general and expansion of privacy and security [...]
Catbird is the pioneer in security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks. The company has now entered into a partnership agreement with Forsythe, a leading IT infrastructure consultant and integrator, according to which Forsythe will offer Catbird’s vSecurity® software to bring PCI, HIPAA and SOX compliance to its customers who are moving to [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation a $5.3 million two-year contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to address new medical coding standards. Harris will support the VA’s migration to new coding standards in time for Oct.1, 2013 transition which will improve VA billing [...]
Privacy advocate Dr Deborah Peel ‘s Patient Privacy Rights Foundation and Zogby International has conducted a new survey which has revealed that a whopping 97% of the 2,000 adults questioned want the right to control their own personal medical information and be allowed to limit with whom their “sensitive information” is shared. In a press [...]
A Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) webinar based on the importance of HIPAA compliance for an IT manager is to be held on October 20, 2011, which will be sponsored by Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company. The webinar which has been entitled, “What does HIPAA Compliance mean to an IT Manager?” will [...]
HIPAA security rules deal with health information that is maintained or transmitted electronically. This rule emphasizes on the security framework for those entities that deal with medically sensitive information. As such, they apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with [...]
Medical practitioners often use Patient Consent Form in their practice which specifies methods by which a patient agrees to let him use his or her protected information for routine TPO purposes. Should a patient complain that his or her privacy rights have been violated, a consent form gives out an extra measure of protection if [...]
URAC is a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry. It has awarded the HIPAA Security and Privacy Covered Entity accreditations to Shared Health, one of the leaders in HealthCare Industry. URAC’s HIPAA Security Accreditation program provides an emphasis on the fundamentals of ongoing risk managemen. It [...]
The Medical Group Management Association has released its survey which reveals that most of the physicians are still unprepared for a shift to the new electronic claims submission standards known as HIPAA 5010, although the adoption deadline is just six months away. Only 9.2 per cent of the physicians were performing test procedures to the [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires health plans, health care clearinghouses and most health care providers (covered entities), including most pharmacies, to safeguard the privacy of patient information, and maintain adequate levels of privacy and security when disposing off various information. When media circulated various videotaped incidents in a variety of cities across United States in [...]