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The Office of
the National Coordinator has
released FOA announcements
for Regional Extension
Centers and Health Information Exchanges.
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As a
provider,
do you qualify for Incentive Funds
being made available from the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act?
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Learn the
latest
updates on Meaningful Use and Certification….straight
from the ONC front lines.
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Funding for
your
electronic health record
– fact or fiction?
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Understanding
regulatory language for
Data Breach and making
data unreadable or encrypted.
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Recovery Act
pushes Business Associates
and Other Vendors into the
murky depths of HIPAA Privacy and Security!
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Is there
really a
Stimulus package or is
this just more regulatory busy work?
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Ringing in the New Year
with the Nationwide Privacy
and Security Framework
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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
Market 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.
