Category Archives: Products
Blumenthal announces the first state settlement with Healthnet
This January Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal painted the headlines red when he brought a HIPAA enforcement action against insurance giant Health, thus becoming the first AG in the country to do so. Health Net has been under suit for it’s loss of a hard drive containing over 500,000 individuals’ records including clinical data, … Continue reading
HHS Proposed Rule for marketing under HIPAA
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a set of significant updates to health privacy rules. The rule is open for public comment until September 13th. Although the proposed rule does not clarify some outstanding issues in the health information technology (health IT) area, it does contain numerous changes to the … Continue reading
Using ‘Secure FAX’ to comply with HIPAA’s ‘SafeGuards Principle’
There are various concerns when healthcare organizations urgent need to send important and sensitive information, like protected health information (PHI) via facsimile as anyone with physical access to the phone lines and some technical expertise can eavesdrop on phone calls and FAXes and thus obtain any protected health information by fax. HIPAA deals with FAXes … Continue reading
ePharmaSolutions joins hands with iTrials for better patient recruitment process
ePharmaSolutions, a leading provider of clinical research technologies and services, has joined hands with iTrials to help improve the site selection and patient recruitment process. For this, ePharmaSolutions will integrate iTrials’ longitudinal patient database into its CRID (Clinical Research Investigator Database), linking practicing physicians and experienced research Investigators with iTrials’ patient data to provide detailed … Continue reading
Choosing the right biometric system for securing PHI
HIPAA lays special emphasis on conversion of medical records of patient from paper to electronic format and any covered entity failing to protect the patient health data as per HIPAA compliance norms is subject to strict penalties and criminal convictions. When making health transactions on the internet, it is mandatory for health service entities to … Continue reading
Apptix launches Secure Mail for email protection
Apptix is the leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and business VoIP services for businesses worldwide. The company has now announced the launch of Apptix Secure Mail which will provide email encryption and decryption at the desktop for secure end-to-end transmission. It will protect messages while in transit over the Internet, and at … Continue reading
HHS reports a significant number of PHI breaches by HIPAA covered entities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states that post the coming into effect of the new federal breach notification requirement in September 2009, large breaches of patients’ health information have been reported by more than 30 HIPAA covered entities. The breach notification requirement, enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of … Continue reading
HIPAA ensures benefits from health insurance to individuals with pre-existing conditions
Getting a health coverage is a big issue for plenty of individuals who are unable to purchase private health insurance because they have a known health condition or problem that is very expensive to treat. Insurance companies have the right to refuse to cover such individuals since they are considered as liabilities and may cost … Continue reading
IQMax ties up with Transolutions to deliver its mobile dictation platform
IQMax, a healthcare technology provider, has partnered with Transolutions to deliver IQMax’s mobile dictation platform to 150 physicians at a leading acute care facility in the Midwest. Transolutions is a healthcare information company providing medical transcription services and technology document driven solutions to acute care facilities, clinics and surgery centers. Physicians are using iPAQ mobile … Continue reading
Emdeon lunches HIPAA Simplified to help compliance
According to the rules issued by HHS on January 16, 2009, all healthcare segments, hospitals, physicians, dentists, pharmacies, PBMs, payers and vendors require to comply with the new HIPAA 5010 and NCPDP D.0 standards by January 1, 2012. This has posed a number of challenges for the covered entities. Now, Emdeon has launched HIPAA Simplified … Continue reading