Articles by: Gary Pritts
Gary consults in the areas of physician practice management, medical information systems, HIPAA compliance, health and productivity management and general business management. Gary serves on the board of Lakewood Hospital, one of the Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals, and is a founder and past president of eHealth Ohio, and is active with numerous professional organizations. He served as product development manager for the EDI clearinghouse division of Quadax, a regional clearinghouse, and understands provider organizations from his 6 years as President and owner of Premier Rehab, a Medicare Certified Rehab agency with two Cleveland locations. His computer background includes 15 years in various computer and computer service organizations. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
by Gary Pritts | Jul 30, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
(Editor’s Note: For the Stage 2 Rules effective 10/16/2015, the Privacy and Security Objective is now Objective #1) Eagle Consulting Partners is working with three clients, participants in the Medicare Meaningful Use program, to assist them with responses to...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of cyber-espionage have shown consistent, significant growth and display a wider variety of threat actions than any other pattern discovered in Verizon’s recent 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed of over 63,000 confirmed security...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 26, 2014 | HIPAA
The HIPAA Omnibus/Final Rule, published on January 25, 2013, grandfathered valid HIPAA Business Associate agreements prior to that date until September 22, 2014. That grace period is rapidly coming to an end. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 23, 2014 | HIPAA
AccessHealthCT, the health insurance exchange in Connecticut, announced that an employee of a contractor left a backpack containing the protected health information of 400 of the state’s residents on the street. The information left behind was written on a notepad and...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 21, 2014 | HIPAA
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments for a criminal ring involving individuals working at multiple facilities in Alabama. Other individuals in the fraud ring were former employees of a hospital located on Ft. Benning Army base. The ring allegedly used...
