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Forsythe To Offer Catbird’s Vsecurity® Software To Its Customers
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 … Continue reading
Harris Corporation to support VA’s transition to new coding standards
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 … Continue reading
Shared Health awarded the HIPAA Security and Privacy Covered Entity accreditations from URAC
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 … Continue reading
Using hard drive full disc encryption for safety of electronic data
Healthcare providers often stand at the risk of losing confidential and personal data when laptop computers are misplaced or stolen. Companies large and small, public and private, are all at risk. The real and associated costs of data breaches are staggering: In 2006, corporations that experienced a data breach spent an average of $5 million … Continue reading
Hyland acquires CSC Group to expand its hold in healthcare sector
Hyland has acquired Computer Systems Company (CSC) Group for an undisclosed sum. CSC deals in areas like clinical healthcare systems with ultrasound imaging and reporting, and revenue cycle management solutions. After the deal, Hyland customers will be better able to convert their paper-based documents into digital assets that can be made accessible to organizations’ clinical, … Continue reading
People want more control on their PHI: Reveals Dr. Peel’s survey
The 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 who took part in the survey admitted that they wanted the right to control their own personal medical information and be allowed to limit with whom … Continue reading
What are the computer regulations under HIPAA Security Rules?
With the growing use of technology, government also needed to ensure HIPAA compliance in the use of computers also. HIPAA computer regulations fall under the HIPAA security rules and health care providers have to follow HIPAA guidelines when transmitting personal health information in electronic format. Here are some regulations which need to be followed by … Continue reading
HIPAA and HITECH compliance while using Blackberry mobile services
When you use blackberry mobile devices to send and receive email that may contain electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), you must abide by the HIPAA and HITECH laws. While using Blackberry devices, you can read ePHI-containing email over POP or IMAP as long as your email provider supports secure, SSL-enabled POP and IMAP connections, and … Continue reading
Electronic medical records on the sale need to be protected
There are many serious issues concerning to update and running of Medical records in America and one of them is selling out of Medical health records as preserved in digital form as well as in preserved in hard copies. As Medical health records provides very relevant and key information to researchers and despite all government … Continue reading
Allied Telesis-Hosted PACS Solutions partnership to offer a unique cloud-based PACS service
Allied Telesis Inc., a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet switching solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of converged multi-play networks, has entered into an alliance with Hosted PACS Solutions, an application service provider to managed cloud-based Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) services to enable the seamless and secure transfer and storage of … Continue reading