Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, the world is going through a difficult time. The unusually fast communication capacity of the Coronavirus has restricted the lives of people. Since the disease gets easily transferred, the WHO has already given some mandatory guidelines to check the disease’s spread. No matter how restrictive these guidelines may […]
Category: HIPAA & HITECH System
Moving Beyond HIPAA and Preventing Cyber Threat – A Brief Guide
HIPAA, which stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was introduced in 1996 as legislation to protect patients with proper handling of their PHI (Protected Health Information). The main intention of this act was to provide security and data privacy to the patients. The time when this act was passed was the age of […]
HHS Revises Penalty Table For HIPAA Violations
The health sector is one of the most important sectors in every society that takes care of public health. However, the interest of personal information, as well as financial dealings in this sector, needs to be secured. The government authorities do the same in the US. The organization, HIPAA, also known as Health Insurance Portability […]
EHRs Found Severely Underperforming or Worse
The state of the latest electronic health records in the United States is not impressive. In fact, a three-month joint investigation conducted by the Fortune magazine and Kaiser Health News showed a disturbing result. The reporters had a word with over 100 sources during which it was revealed that EHRs are not only falling short […]
HIPAA, HITECH, and Omnibus
Introduction With the perverse adoption of innovative technologies such as cloud computing in the healthcare industry, there was a need for some strict guidelines to monitor and govern organizations that have access to Protected Health Information (ePHI). The HIPAA, HITECH and the Omnibus rules are three words that form the baseline for bringing sanity in […]