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 | Mar 10, 2014 | HIPAA
Evaluating the Potential Impact of a HIPAA Security Breach in Your Risk Analysis HIMSS 2014 included multiple presentations and updates regarding breach risk. Attorney Tatiana Melnik of Melnik Legal presented an update on civil actions which provides important...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 7, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Several officials from CMS spoke at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando regarding meaningful use audits. Approximately 5% of both physician and hospital providers are being audited, and these audits are split about 50/50 between post-payment and pre-payment audits. “Document,...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 6, 2014 | HIPAA
“Top 20 Critical Security Controls” began in 2008 as an effort by U.S. and international agencies, including our own NSA, which has been the subject of so much media attention recently. Eventually, recommendations for what became the “Critical Security Controls”...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 4, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
Eagle Consulting, Inc. has worked with healthcare providers who have failed meaningful use audits in the last two years. In each of these cases, the providers contacted us after the auditors found that they had not completed a legitimate risk analysis as required by...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 3, 2014 | Health Information Technology
Covered entities have been complying with the HIPAA Security Rule since 2005, with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the main enforcer starting in 2009. Industry watchers know that compliance across the provider community was limited, so, when CMS designed...
