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…
The term Continuity of Care Document or CCD is exclusively used within medical arena which is actually a web or XML based standard that is used to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of patient’s clinical records. This is usually used by health professional in cases when a patient is transferred to one care from…
There are pluses and minuses to social media in the health care industry. One of the biggest drawbacks is the lack of understanding regarding how people use social media not only in the workplace but also when they’re away from work. A unified communications provider wrote a white paper that highlighted five key legal issues…
We talk a lot about the kind of damage that hackers can do if they manage to infiltrate a company’s network. We talk about the havoc that someone could wreak if he stole or found a laptop with company information on it. But we often gloss over or completely neglect to mention the devastation that…
Protecting patient privacy is essential to any healthcare facility that wants to stay in business. In this era of electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchanges (HIE), keeping patient information safe from the nefarious and the just plain nosy is difficult but not impossible. Small dental and medical practices have to ensure that they’re…
It’s safe to say that house calls are things of the past. But modern technology in the form of mobile phones is ushering in something that some might say is even better. For decades people have been able to call answering services and receive calls back from their physicians or some other health care professional,…