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Knowing about changes in HIPAA for better compliance 4 Mar 2012 | 01:52 am
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus bill made quite a few amendments to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which was ena...
Forsythe To Offer Catbird’s Vsecurity® Software To Its Customers 7 Nov 2011 | 08:17 pm
Catbird is the pioneer in security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks. The company has now entered into a partnership agreement with Forsythe, a leading IT infrastructure consulta...
Harris Corporation to support VA’s transition to new coding standards 2 Nov 2011 | 06:05 pm
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation a $5.3 million two-year contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to addre...
97% of Americans want more control on their PHI: New survey reveals 21 Oct 2011 | 07:14 pm
Privacy advocate Dr Deborah Peel ‘s Patient Privacy Rights Foundation and Zogby International has conducted a new survey which has revealed that a whopping 97% of the 2,000 adults questioned want the ...
HIMSS webinar on importance of HIPAA compliance to an IT manager 19 Oct 2011 | 11:43 pm
A Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) webinar based on the importance of HIPAA compliance for an IT manager is to be held on October 20, 2011, which will be sponsored by Axway, the...
The scope of HIPAA Security Rules 17 Oct 2011 | 04:56 pm
HIPAA security rules deal with health information that is maintained or transmitted electronically. This rule emphasizes on the security framework for those entities that deal with medically sensitive...
A Sample Patient Consent Form for HIPAA 14 Oct 2011 | 07:00 pm
Medical practitioners often use Patient Consent Form in their practice which specifies methods by which a patient agrees to let him use his or her protected information for routine TPO purposes. Shoul...
Shared Health awarded the HIPAA Security and Privacy Covered Entity accreditations from URAC 6 Jul 2011 | 05:15 pm
URAC is a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry. It has awarded the HIPAA Security and Privacy Covered Entity accred...
MGMA survey reveals that practices still not prepared for HIPAA 5010 29 Jun 2011 | 05:10 pm
The Medical Group Management Association has released its survey which reveals that most of the physicians are still unprepared for a shift to the new electronic claims submission standards known as H...
RAC agrees to pay $1 million to settle violations of HIPAA 11 Jun 2011 | 10:48 pm
The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires health plans, health care clearinghouses and most health care providers (covered entities), including most pharmacies, to safeguard the privacy of patient information, ...
