Propublica found that hundreds of Chicago police officers are stuck with desk jobs doing tasks such as "data entry, graphic design or grant writing" instead of being out on their streets dealing with crime and gang activity. Let's all start 2018 with each employee...
The gazette and La Presse recently audited the city of ontreal's contracting database and found numerous grievous errors. The city's response was that a "validation mechanism had been put in place to prevent users from entering invalid NEQs or postal codes - one that...
When it comes to maintaining HIPAA compliance, both healthcare providers and their chosen third-party vendors – or business associates – need to work together for comprehensive and current health data security. According to Tim Feldman, Vice President and General...
Bill Kleyman's recent article in health it security goes over the basics that every healthcare security administrator must consider in their own operations. But no healthcare network operates in isolation. Each healthcare provider must network with other institutions...
HIPAA: Risk Assessment Risk assessment helps covered entities ensure they are compliant with the HIPAA necessities in terms of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. It also helps in showing potential areas where an organization might be putting PHI at...
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Healthcare organizations must guarantee that they have comprehensive and regularly updated administrative safeguards, such as user authentication procedures and proper access control with all healthcare facility. A failure to have these in place, or having outdated...
Medical outsourcing is the consignment of core services or procedures of the organization to a provider that emphases in that area of service or operation. It includes transaction services, customer care, communication and marketing, cost avoidance, audit, payment...
A pew charitable trusts study found that the automatic record matching systems cause frequent errors with 20% of hospital chief information officers reporting patient harm caused by these incorrect records. These incorrect matches are caused by human data entry...
Covered entities and business associates should be well-aware of the OCR HIPAA audit program, particularly when Phase2 has already been in place for several months now. More organizations are electing for cloud computing options, and may even start to implement...
