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Key Challenges in Maintaining Compliance with Regulatory Standards in the Context of Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

Currently, one such tricky area is health information management. To learn more about this, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them what are the key challenges in maintaining compliance with regulatory standards, such as HIPAA , in the context of health information management?

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Providers put patient safety as #1.

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Health IT and Vegas: Made for Each Other

Digital Health

I was in Las Vegas at HIMSS this last week, which, for the uninitiated, is a veritable orgy of health information technology (HIT). Someone from HIMSS leadership told me that over 42,000 people had shown up and they were expecting closer to 45,000. It’s a long way from 1998, I’ll tell you. Back then HIT […].

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Hot 2020 Health Information Management and Health Information Technology Topics

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.

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Greenway Health Announces New Offerings and Leadership For Greenway Revenue Services

Electronic Health Reporter

Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider, today announced enhanced offerings with Greenway Revenue Services (GRS), which provides revenue cycle management support to clients. Due to clients placing a stronger emphasis on the […].

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security? Individuals have a fundamental right to dictate who and when their health information is leveraged. Working to keep that information private in the new paradigm of Teams Meetings, PowerBI reports, and decentralized data is a heavy burden for modern CISOs.

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Exploring the Myths of Outsourced HIM (Health Information Management)

Healthcare IT Today

When it comes to HIM (Health Information Management), it seems like everyone has come to understand the value of outsourcing many of these services overseas. It’s hard to argue with being able to provide a high quality HIM service at a lower cost using less expensive overseas labor.