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Nine Policies and Procedures for Compliance with HIPAA

Nine 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…

Four IT Lessons To Be Learned From The Disastrous Launch of Healthcare.gov

Four 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….

Why are so many Baltimore Medical clinics switching EHR software?

Why 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…

Lawyers Advice Baltimore Healthcare Specialists – Ignore HIPAA at your own risk

Lawyers 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…

Tech Council of Maryland

Tech Council of Maryland

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The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM) is Maryland’s largest technology trade association which brings its 500 plus members access to technology industry leaders in Maryland, DC and Virginia. TCM has two divisions which provide valuable resources and benefits to help businesses succeed. The MdTech serves the advanced technology community and MdBio serves the Maryland biotechnology community.

Outsourced Baltimore IT Support

Outsourced Baltimore IT Support

The relationship between small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and Information Technology (IT) can often be described as a “love/hate” relationship. You absolutely rely on technology to help your business run efficiently, but IT is most likely not one of your core competencies – and just keeping your systems running can be a major undertaking that distracts you from business-building activities.

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