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The White House
receives a grade card for Privacy and N-Tegrity
takes you
bobbing for data breaches. (October 2010)
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N-Tegrity
focuses on the NPRM for Modifications to the
HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement Rules and
Final Rule for Electronic Health Record Incentive
Program. (August 2010)
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OCR publishes guidance on Risk Analysis that
should be reviewed by covered entities as a part
of their ongoing Security Management program and
for others as they begin to understand their
Security accountability. (June 2010)
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OCR sets a
precedent for needing a
written consent from providers prior to
publishing their name as a part of breach
notification web site. (April 2010)
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First State Attorney General's lawsuit and
HITECH regulations have been delayed. (March
2010)
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Meaningful Use and
Certification Regulations
are released. (January 2010)
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Santa publishes his Christmas wish list and
Red Flags Rules face one more delay.
(December 2009)
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N-Tegrity publishes
for their readers a
revised Business Associate Agreement that
takes into account language from HITECH. (October
2009)
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The Office of
the National Coordinator has
released FOA announcements
for Regional Extension
Centers and Health Information Exchanges. (August
2009)
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As a
provider,
do you qualify for Incentive Funds
being made available from the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act? (July 2009)
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Learn the
latest
updates on Meaningful Use and Certification….straight
from the ONC front lines. (June 2009)
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Funding for
your
electronic health record
– fact or fiction? (May 2009)
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Understanding
regulatory language for
Data Breach and making
data unreadable or encrypted. (April 2009)
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Recovery Act
pushes Business Associates
and Other Vendors into the
murky depths of HIPAA Privacy and Security! (March
2009)
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Is there
really a
Stimulus package or is
this just more regulatory busy work? (February
2009)
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Alphabet Soup -
clarifying all of the different sub-groups from
the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
information Technology can be very confusing.
This link
provides clarification to all of the groups and
the purpose for each.
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HHS Corrective
Action Plan for HIPAA Violations - One of the most
recent actions by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services was to fine and
implement a
corrective action plan for Providence
Health and Services of Seattle, WA. Based on
a complaint that personal health information was
lost by way of an errant laptop without proper
security protections.
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EHR Demonstration
Project - CMS created a demonstration initiative
for Electronic Health Records.. Multiple community
partners were solicited to help with outreach
activities, education and recruitment of PCPs.
Read more about the adoption and use of EHRs
in healthcare.
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The Privacy and
Security of data within the realm of Personal
Health Records (PHRs) has been a controversial
topic prior to Google launching its web offering
for a personal repository. To
read
more about this subject you can download the
Markle Foundation report.
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N-Tegrity Solutions Group principal owners
were honored in 2007 by the Workgroup for
Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
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CMS releases
compliance results - CMS released the results of a
compliance-based effectiveness program.
Review the 5 basic
steps for a successful compliance process.
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New Trends in
Identity Theft - although HIPAA goes a long way to
keep health information Private and Secure, there
is data not covered by HIPAA. Looking beyond
HIPAA, what is happening to
address this concern.
