EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Tag Archives: HIPAA
2010
Business Associates Now Subject To Security Rules and Penalties
The HITECH Act was signed into law just one year ago. That wouldn’t be noteworthy, except that at the one-year anniversary of its signing, HIPAA privacy rules became applicable to business associates of covered entities.
Previously, covered entities weren’t subject to these rules, except to the extent that they were governed by their business associate agreements (BAAs).
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Filed under: HIPAA, HITECH Act
Tagged: HIPAA, HITECH Act, HITECH and HIPAA
2009
Health Information Technology: A View From The Inside, Part 1
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Dr. Brian Keaton is President and CEO of NEO RHIO, a Regional Health Information Organization serving 22 counties in Northeast Ohio. He is a past President and Board Chairman of the 26,000 member American College of Emergency Physicians, an emergency physician and a professor of emergency medicine at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. We caught up with him between meetings and talked with him about how all the pieces of the EMR puzzle will fit together.
Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, HITECH Act, RHIO
Tagged: EMR, HIE, HIPAA, HITECH and RHIO, Regional Extension Center, RHIO
2009
RHIOs: The Glue That Will Hold HIT Together
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Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) will serve as an infrastructure for – and enable sharing of — electronic health information. A RHIO is designed to pull together all of the organizations, facilities and individuals in the race to computerize health data. Implementers such as hospitals, medical offices, laboratories, payers, insurers and patients all have a stake and must have their issues taken into account. That’s where RHIOs come in.
2009
Listen to HITECH Act Podcast from Massachusetts Health Data Consortium CEO
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium has decades of experience bringing regional medical providers together to encourage innovation and collaboration. To get their perspective on the HITECH Act and electronic health records (a.k.a. electronic medical records), I spoke with the MHDC’s CEO, Ray Campbell. Listen to what Campbell has to say about this “messy … chaotic transition” that will form the foundation of any future health care system in this country.
Gretchen Siegchrist
PC Healthstop Blogging Team
Filed under: Electronic Health Records, HIT, HITECH Act
Tagged: EHR, HIPAA, HIT, HITECH Incentives, HITECH Privacy, HITECH timelines
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