Tom Sullivan
The document is nearly 600 pages, but early on HHS explains that there are four rules within the omnibus final HIPAA Privacy and Security rule. Here they are, straight from the source.
There are well-known ways that thieves make use of medical data and then there are some surprises, such as marketing ploys.
David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp, discusses successful single payer systems in other nations, how other countries view our healthcare system, and what it will take to bend the cost curve here in the U.S.
IDC Health Insights group vice president is expecting that, by early March, the healthcare realm will see more HIPAA-compliant cloud services and an influx of organizations willing to sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements.
Buried within the latest Ponemon Institute study are some perhaps surprising statistics indicating that privacy and security are scaring a substantial chunk of providers away from joining a health information exchange.
Scott Lundstrom, group vice president of IDC Health Insights, says that states should expect the final health insurance exchange deadline to be pushed back and calls the federal-state model a “tiger trap.”
Even though evidence suggests that healthcare records are more valuable to crooks than financial records, three out of five healthcare organizations are not allocating enough resources to their protect patient data. Ironically, a big reason is that the industry has no way to place a value on that information.
Election uncertainty made holding off on a health insurance exchange or Medicaid expansion appealing to conservative Governors. And while many are still resisting, experts in the trenches believe that is on the verge of changing now that President Obama has been reelected.
Marking a bridge's beginning, ONC has made it official: eHealth Exchange is standing on its own as a non-federal, nonprofit entity. ONC announced the new status on Oct. 11.
The story of a how a tiny sandbox became an agency-wide cloud that CDC is now preparing to make available for state and local health departments across the country.