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HHS’ move to slash HIPAA fines

Morning eHealth

CMS audit turns up more inappropriate meaningful use payments — Early lessons on patient generated health data

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Does Your Healthcare Organization Need to Level Up Their NIST Security Efforts?

Healthcare IT Today

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

Before you can exchange data with other Carequality organizations, you must be granted approval from Carequality under one or more predefined purposes of use describing t how you will use the data that you retrieve. Currently, organizations are only required to respond to queries for the Treatment purpose of use , as defined by HIPAA.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. How Will the Market Respond?