Government & Policy
With the deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule less than a week away, the Office of the National Coordinator and the HHS Office for Civil Rights are giving a hand to providers and payers, issuing examples of the notices of privacy practices that must be furnished to patients and plan members under the law.
Johnson + Johnson and the mHealth Alliance are partnering to serve developing nations where mobile healthcare tools are catching on but held back by limited resources.
Will the omnibus HIPAA final rule arrive on September 23 as the scary new face of healthcare privacy and security, or a countenance of incremental change?
Because an unprecedented amount of sensitive personal data will flow through health insurance exchanges, consumers and healthcare organizations must demand that robust security be driven into the operational fabric of the HIX, alongside proactive risk management that is pervasive at all levels of the ecosystem.
A bill introduced in Congress this week would enable healthcare providers to treat Medicare patients in other states via telemedicine without needing different licenses for each state.
Oregon is providing a functional telecom infrastructure to support healthcare statewide. Yet barriers to the expansion of telemedicine for care delivery persist.
Often seen as a black box, RAT-STATS is more akin to a simple calculator. And when the government comes to investigate healthcare providers for abuse or fraud, it pays to understand the software's intricacies and weaknesses to build a sound defense.
The general public needs greater urgency in monitoring medical records and reporting these types of crimes. Two experts offer easy ways for patients to get started.
Big data and analytics are also creating new career opportunities, according to the Journal of AHIMA, and HIM professionals are ripe to grow into the emerging roles.
Cloud computing may have finally reached a tipping point within the healthcare realm, according to a soon to be published report, which found that CIOs' perspectives and trust of the model are evolving quickly.