by Eagle Editor | Nov 6, 2015 | General News, HIPAA, HIPAA Policy Templates
When it comes to healthcare cyber security, the Government is stepping up audits and taking a closer look at business associates right now. Are you ready? What can you expect as the government changes and updates its rules, and brings a new focus on compliance? Audits. More rule changes. Enforcement. The bottomline is privacy through security.
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by Gary Pritts | Nov 4, 2015 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News, HIPAA
This week the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2016. Combing through this 76 page document revealed some items of interest relating to HIPAA and Meaningful Use. In particular, we note two areas of investigation: 1)... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Oct 10, 2015 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News
Did you know that Stage 2 is restructured from 17 core objectives and 6 menu set objectives to a simplified 10 required objectives? CMS has released its meaningful use rules for 2015 — we’ve reviewed them and have some analysis of objectives and measures for you.
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by Gary Pritts | Oct 8, 2015 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News
What’s going on with new privacy and security objectives for Meaningful Use in healthcare? New MU Stage 2 Rules affirm that an annual Security Risk Analysis (SRA) must be conducted, and that the scope of this SRA may be limited to the data in the EHR.
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by Gary Pritts | Oct 8, 2015 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News
After the Oct. 2015 update from CMS, meaningful use and the security objective as this objective has moved from last, Core Measure 15 of 15, to first, Measure 1 of 10. We review what this means for provider in the latest edition of our newsletter.
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by Gary Pritts | Oct 7, 2015 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News
Now that meaningful use Stage 2, Measure 5 has been clarified, providers have some more flexibility including the use of secure email. We discuss some options for your consideration including secure email that could be obtained for under $25 per month.
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