by Gary Pritts | May 5, 2011 | HIPAA
Reporting from Beijing, China. Microsoft is hurrying to fix a significant problem with windows at its Beijing facility. Recently, Microsoft constructed a new, dual-tower facility in the Haidian district of Beijing to consolidate its 3000 software engineers here in...
by Gary Pritts | Apr 7, 2011 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, HIPAA
Hospitals, physician practices, government agencies, business associates and others who must comply with the HIPAA Security regulations should dust off the previous HIPAA Security Risk Analysis and update it for 2011. Hospitals and Physician practices qualifying for...
by Gary Pritts | Apr 4, 2011 | HIPAA
(Editor’s Notes: 5/23/2018: Over the last 7 years, this program has morphed annually, although this post remains relevant. The Meaningful Use program is now called “Promoting Interoperability”. 10/1/2016: The scope of the Security Risk Analysis...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 22, 2011 | HIPAA
Fresh news from the National HIPAA Summit, held March 9-11 in Washington DC, is that the HHS Office of Civil Rights has scheduled “HIPAA Enforcement Training” for State Attorneys General. Susan McAndrew, OCR’s Deputy Director for Health Information...
by Gary Pritts | Feb 28, 2011 | DD Boards
All of Ohio’s County Boards of Developmental Disability have received a beautifully bound set of freshly updated HIPAA policies from the County Board Association. These changes are based on the new HIPAA law enacted in 2009. Don’t give into the...
by Gary Pritts | Feb 25, 2011 | HIPAA
With reports about multi-million dollar HIPAA fines in the news for the first time, and discussion of stiff new HIPAA penalties from the HITECH Act, administrators and physicians are asking about the new enforcement activities. Recently, a small organization was hit...
by Gary Pritts | Feb 24, 2011 | HIPAA
The Obama Administration continues to accelerate its enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. This month saw two additional $1M+ fines. On February 4, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its first-ever Civil Monetary...
by Gary Pritts | Sep 1, 2010 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
(Editor’s Note: This article, drafted in 2010, remains relevant in 2015 for organizations seeking guidance for Stage 2 and Stage 3 of Meaningful Use. See also Security Risk Analysis Required for MU Stages 2 and 3 and Meaningful Use and the Evolution of Privacy...
by Gary Pritts | Oct 1, 2009 | HIPAA
Physician practices have become more reliant on computer technology, the internet has connected most computers, and small mobile devices are everywhere. The net result is that practices are more exposed to computer security problems than ever before. With a small or...
by Gary Pritts | Sep 11, 2008 | Health Information Technology
ARRA The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus bill, includes incentive payments (“the carrot”) to most practices of up to $44,000, per physician, for those who implement electronic health records (EHR). Further, the...
