[Guest Post: Millie Whitehead] Most people go to the hospital to improve their health. They expect to get a new injury or illness. Unfortunately, thousands of people in the UK suffer injuries, contract illnesses and even die in hospitals each year. The medical community has taken multiple steps to improve the quality of care, but […]
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MPT Podcast 48 – Business Associates and the Impact of the Final Rule, with guest Mike Meikle of Hawkthorne Consulting Group. Mr. Meikle discusses the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and its effect on business associates (BAs), and what medical practices need to watch for. This Issue (5:24): What are business associates (BAs)? How are they impacted […]
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Who: CNNMoney.com What: As polarizing as the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) is, it is difficult to separate the wheat (facts) from the chaff (scare tactics). Politicians are telling their constituents that the legislation will put an undue burden on small business that will ‘kill’ jobs. But what is the reality? Only those […]
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MPT Podcast 47 – HIPAA Security Rule and the Impact of the Final Rule, with guest Mike Meikle of Hawkthorne Consulting Group. Mr. Meikle discusses the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and its effect on the Security Rule, and what it means for medical practices. This Issue (5:25): What is the HIPAA Security Rule? How has the HIPAA […]
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Who: FierceEMR.com What: Electronic health records offer the opportunity to better integrate clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) at the point of care, but the technology and physician practice must evolve, according to a paper published at BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Just sending out more reminders to physicians won’t do the trick, researchers say. At […]
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Who: IDM.Net.au What: The role of the Health Information Manager is no easy task. Like a conductor leading an orchestra, they must lead a wide range of health information initiatives – across multiple departments – to keep their health system in tune. And with the healthcare data explosion – driven by the Electronic Medical Record, […]
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Who: SacBee.com What: It sounds futuristic, but today Carnegie Mellon University researchers are developing edible electronic devices that can be implanted in the body to improve patient care. “We are creating electronically active medical devices that can be implanted in the body,” said Christopher Bettinger, an assistant professor in the departments of Materials Science and […]
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Social media is fast becoming a fact of modern life. More and more searches are performed on Facebook, Google maps are used instead of the phone book, and prospective customers look at social media review sites before they decide to patronize a business. What does this have to do with your medical practice? Whether they […]
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Who: WashingtonPost.com What: The county launched a program that offered subsidized coverage to residents who could not afford private insurance but who made too much to qualify for Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor. But a year after the program began, fewer than 500 people had signed up — less than a third of […]
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Who: www.HealthcareITNews.Com What: All organizations have a business imperative to control risk. For healthcare companies that corporate responsibility extends to the protection of ePHI within their organization. The HIPAA Omnibus rule outlines this responsibility with a refined definition of responsible parties, notably your outsourced storage vendors and subcontractors.This final rule is a call to action, […]