Tag Archives: HIPAA
Online Services Let Patients to Seek Second Opinion from Home
Just like as the case occurred with 60 years old Terri Harlow, when she had to decide between two types of Breast Cancer treatments, one the six- week-long whole breast radiation and a newer one that is called MammoSite radiation, she decided to seek second opinion from Boston based Dana- Farber Cancer Institute. But, she … Continue reading
Practical complications attached to HIPAA
CASE 1: All Looking For Information: In this case Pam Biggers, 52, who is an independent contractor with Hueytown, was last seen on January 27 at Thomas Drive hotel in Panama City. She was in Florida with her client Winn-Dixie. As investigated by Mitch Pitts, an investigator with Bay County Sheriff’s Department in Florida, she … Continue reading
Start differentiating between IT Compliance and IT Security
With the span and expansion of IT related services and increase in stature of an IT environment of the company that is overtaking general operations of a company, the modern companies are undergoing a major policy shift regarding the IT security. In a positive move, companies now have started diverting a considerable chunk of their … Continue reading
Beware! Medical ID theft, it can ruin your life!
Like the theft of information, regarding a credit card, leaves one jeopardized as for the leakage of information regarding one’s financial assets and credit income and account liabilities. In same manner, the stealing of Medial ID theft leaves you with pending medical bills for the services that availed. The medical bills as pending before you … Continue reading
What about Network Security in VM (Virtual Machine) servers?
There are so many network security issues that are to be abided by IT professionals and with the rampant change in technology related issues. Meanwhile, when catering to the issue of network security, the advancement in server technology requires the utmost attention in the respective areas. The area of server virtualization where technology moves away … Continue reading
House Health IT Bill Won Support Of Representatives In Recent Hearing
In a recent meeting of House Health Subcommittee held on June 4, 2008 for the Energy and Commerce Committee’s draft on Health and Information technology received the support of the presented representatives. However, question, regarding the privacy provisions as catered in the bill were left pending for further discussion. Health and Information technology draft is … Continue reading
Know the lab test results on a click of a mouse
From now on you will have test results and all the important medical information in your access on a click of a mouse in the United States. MedPlus, a local information technology firm has recently tied up with Internet Giant – Google – to provide lab results reports online without a need of calling up … Continue reading
HIPAA compliance and PHI (Protected Health Information)
A practitioner needs to be extra cautious while following the norms of HIPAA as slightest divergence from adhering to the rules of privacy protection results into hefty fines and damages. In case of not complying with the HIPAA norms one risks authorization and reputation damage, lawsuits by federal government, fiscal penalties in order of $100 … Continue reading