Healthcare
Understanding HIPAA
HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was created in 1996 and implemented by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It was designed…
Read MoreHealthcare Cybersecurity Issues to Avoid and Best Practices
Curious about common healthcare cybersecurity issues to avoid? Click here to discover our healthcare cybersecurity best practices for better protection.
Read MoreHealthcare and Cybersecurity: Benefits of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
If you work in healthcare, your patients’ health and safety are usually top of mind. But did you know that while you’re worrying about how to help your clients live the healthiest lives possible, you should also be worried about their cybersecurity?
Read MoreEmail is the Leading Cause of Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry
Have you implemented appropriate safeguards to protect your healthcare organization against hefty fines? When it comes to HIPAA compliance, regulations are becoming stricter than ever before.
Read MoreNine Policies and Procedures for Compliance with HIPAA
The HIPAA Security Rule was enacted in 1996 by the U.S. Congress, designed to establish national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information used and/or stored by a covered entity. The HITECH act states that all healthcare providers will be offered financial incentives for establishing meaningful use of electronic health records. While HIPAA and…
Read MoreFour IT Lessons To Be Learned From The Disastrous Launch of Healthcare.gov
In theory, the U.S. federal government’s Health Insurance website was designed to make things simpler for residents looking to buy health insurance. However, just 14 days after the launch of www.healthcare.gov, the online initiative was a huge disaster. The troublesome rollout of the U.S. healthcare exchange is a perfect example of outsourced IT gone awry….
Read MoreWhy are so many Baltimore Medical clinics switching EHR software?
Will 2013 be known as the year of the “Big Switch” in the US healthcare market? According to Healthcare IT News, many electronic health record systems are continuing to fall short of expectations with their users. 17,000 EHR adopters were surveyed and approximately 17% of medical practices are looking at making a switch from their…
Read MoreLawyers Advice Baltimore Healthcare Specialists – Ignore HIPAA at your own risk
Government scrutiny and fines are on the way up for healthcare organizations or those Baltimore companies/organizations servicing healthcare who elect to ignore HIPAA or who are only partially compliant. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) requires that “covered entity” and healthcare…
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