While many covered entities use electronic medical systems instead of recording patient data with pen-and-paper, information recording via electronic medical records is much faster. The Medicaid EHR incentive program has been put into place to help motivate healthcare providers to better utilize the capabilities of these systems. “Meaningful Use” is a legal term that refers... Continue reading
On January 15th, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rules mandating the adoption of the ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision). Originally, October 1st, 2014 was to be the date that compliance with the latest revision of the medical transaction code set (ICD-10 was mandatory. However, a new... Continue reading
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is the Canadian law that serves as the rulebook on data privacy. In some regards, PIPEDA has many parallels with HIPAA in terms of the way that it mandates certain handling of electronic health information. However, PIPEDA does not concern primarily with protected health information (PHI), as... Continue reading
Often when purchasing hosting services and online space, the product is similar between providers. Many hosting providers use the same virtualization technologies and differ only in their implementations and the physical hardware used to house the virtualized environments. What does differ drastically between providers is the quality and array of managed services offered. In many... Continue reading
On Monday, August 18th, Community Health Systems (CHS) reported that it had been the victim of a cyber attack from a Chinese hacking group named “APT 18”, a group alleged to have ties to the Chinese government. APT 18 successfully stole a large quantity of PHI data, including social security numbers, contact information, and other... Continue reading
The term “SQL Server” refers to the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software which runs on the physical/virtual host. There are many different implementations of SQL (Structured Query Language) and choosing between them is dependent upon the database requirements and can have an impact on compliance efforts when dealing with HIPAA guidelines. Many choices are... Continue reading
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