Archive for the ‘hitech act’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
An article today on iHealthbeat titled "Innovation Inspired by Economics: 2010 Health IT Forecast" discusses trends and expectations for growth in healthcare information technologies despite the financial issues faced by many US healthcare providers currently.
"Necessity being the mother of invention, a constrained economic environment will lead to health ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I'd recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The HHS Rules require healthcare ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has affirmed that is has experienced a data breach incident affecting over 800,000 doctors in the US. According to Jeff Smokler at BCBSA, as reported in SC Magazine, thieves stole an employee's computer that contained an unencrypted file with the personal ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
This past week, the Boston Globe wrote about a data breach incident at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that occurred in August of this year and where the affected population of people is just now being notified. The breach, which included social security numbers, included over 39,000 ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
by Doug Pollack
Starting September 23, 2009, healthcare organizations covered by HIPAA and the HITECH Act will be required, in the case of data breach incidents where personal health information (PHI) is improperly exposed, to notify both the individuals affected by the breach as well as the federal government, who will ...
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