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Monterey Spine and Joint Deploys WebLOQ ePrivacy Solution for HIPAA Compliant Health Information Exchange

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- WebLOQ, Inc., the emerging leader in total privacy solutions for secure and compliant eBusiness and data-in-motion communications, today announced that Monterey Spine and Joint has deployed the WebLOQ ePrivacy solution in their state-of-the-art Mont...

CPM Announces Practical Guide to HIPAA Healthcare Communications

MIDDLETON, WI - To assist healthcare providers in complying with the marketing portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule that becomes official today for most providers, Customer Potential Management (CPM) Marketing Group, Inc., has developed a guide t...

API Offers Security Solution That Aids in HIPAA Compliance

HARTFORD, WI - Automating Peripherals Inc announced that the company's SecurALL(R) product helps healthcare organizations comply with security standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...

The HIPAA Security Regulation: The Journey to Compliance

For health care providers, health insurance companies and health care clearing houses April 21, 2005 is too close. This is because these organizations have to prepare to become compliant with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) security regulation. The healthcare organiz...

Time for health plans to comply with HIPAA privacy rules

Effective April 14, 2004, the privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) generally apply to all health plans, including small plans with annual receipts under $5,000,000. What is a health plan? A health plan is any insured or self-insured p...

As HIPAA deadline passes even the unprepared are safe for now

Unlike the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy deadline two years ago, the security deadline that passed on Wednesday involves no up-front proof of compliance and many companies may not yet be compliant. This makes sense to many in the field; the HIPAA rule involves to...

Law firm, IT company team up on HIPAA

MILWAUKEE - A law firm here has teamed up with an IT consulting firm to help companies comply with federal regulations affecting the health care industry. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, S.C., of Milwaukee and Cyberlynk Networks, Inc., of Franklin are offering the packaged solution for small ...

Zvetco Biometrics Delivers a Cohesive Security System Integrating Fingerprint Biometrics with Sun Identity Management Solutions.

...lthcare environments where they can be sprayed regularly with disinfectant without worry, while meeting the revised stringent security requirements of hipaa and other healthcare related government security mandates. In particular, the recently announced transition to an electronic patient record from paper...

US Oncology Named 2009 Laureate by IDG Computerworld Honors Program

... PatientRM has shared capabilities that help to manage individual patient cases, activities and content; share data; develop documents; and ensure hipaa compliance. Each business unit also uses the system to address its unique needs. The system is integral to the Innovent Oncology Patient Suppo...

Managing Conflict of Interest Disclosures Simplified for Healthcare Organizations

...ovides a full library of courses to fulfill the demanding needs of healthcare staff training, including Professional Compliance, Corporate Compliance, hipaa Compliance, Research Compliance, Patient Safety and Competency for Quality Care, among many others. The HCCS Healthcare Learning Platform(HLP) is a h...

Akaza Research Releases New Version of OpenClinica Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Software; Targets Industry Clinical Trials

...management. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, clinical data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports hipaa and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations and is designed as a lightweight, standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. All versions of OpenClinica are av...

Carilion Clinic Invests in Sight Saving Technology to Improve Patient Care: Carilion Clinic Teams Up with Retasure

...lution that allows physicians to capture their patients' retinal images during a three to five minute procedure. Images are transmitted over a secure, hipaa compliant network to an accredited reading center. A state-licensed and board-certified ophthalmologist reviews the images and results are returned to...

OpenClinica EDC Solution Deployed for Retina Implant Studies

...l research. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, clinical data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports hipaa and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines and is designed as a lightweight, standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. All versions of OpenClinica are ava...

HIPAA Privacy Rule Impedes Biomedical Research

...the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC). hipaa Creating Barriers to Research and Discovery descri...s perceived to be one of the greatest threats that hipaa poses to research," says Dr. Daniel Dorsa, vice pr...ents for research workgroup on HIPAA. In practice, hipaa may not offer any greater protection than the long...

Perceptive Informatics Enhances Medical Imaging Capabilities for Assessment of Cardiac Function

...s with other clinical data through an electronic Case Report Form. The system provides an electronic record of all image analysis versions and exceeds hipaa requirements for providing security and a regulatory audit trail, as well as capturing electronic signatures. Perceptive Informatics' medical imaging ...

New Trend Sweeping Nation's Health Plans: Transaction Automation

...costs, and improving provider relations. For almost 20 years, Foresight has helped customers build standards-compliant networks, address mandates like hipaa and NPI, connect partners, validate transactions, and secure operational efficiencies. For more information, visit http://www.ForesightCorp.com or c...

AMICAS Announces Integrations at More Than 100 MEDITECH Facilities

...ed to run their departments and facilities effectively, such as data on referring physician volume reports, imaging equipment utilization, and hipaa reporting needs -- all in a Web-based, drill-down, "point and click" user interface. -- Vision Series PACS includes a bi-directional interfac...

Lucid's VivaScope(R) Reflective Confocal Microscope Approved for Sale in China

...tients by coupling its noninvasive VivaScope(R) cellular imaging technology with its innovative VivaNet(R) medical information system to allow secure, hipaa compliant, near real-time collaboration between dermatologists and other medical specialists. The VivaNet(R) system provides rapid online medical imag...

Lucid Launches VivaNet(R) Telemedicine Server for Dermatology Applications

...tient skin lesions -- Rapid, near-real-time clinical reporting -- Ensured hipaa compliance, privacy, and data integrity via DICOM- compliant, standardi... with its innovative VivaNet(R) medical information system to allow secure, hipaa compliant, near real-time collaboration between dermatologists and other me...

MedicareCRM(TM) to Speak at IIR Medicare Advantage Congress

...nder Patrick Phillips' tenure in healthcare informatics has been dedicated to developing process improvement strategies that have set the standard for hipaa compliant management of protected health information. Craig Hayden, Director, Medicare Sales, Capital District Physicians Health Plan, will present al...

HHS Clarifies Research Use of Data

...nt of Health and Human Services officials that the hipaa privacy rule may impede clinical research trials. ...t the privacy rule does not require IRBs to review hipaa authorizations for compliance with the rule's requ...ance and enforcement, all that is required is that hipaa authorizations used for research or other disclosu...

Are You Ready for Identity Theft?

...lnerability assessments, and having a security action plan. If you are with an organization that is not in a regulated industry required to follow hipaa and GLBA regulations, you may want to consider following the NIST (National Institute of Standards in Technology) methodology to develop your security...

Doing it Right: Business IT Fusion for the Future

...g. To comply with these new laws, front and back office business processes need to be integrated with IT solutions. Government Demands The new hipaa guidelines for the portability and privacy of medical records and the challenges now imposed on corporations by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will make huge ...

Fiserv Health and Aetna help employers control health care costs

...as a part of the Fiserv Health Solutions Group. Wausau Benefits is accredited by URAC for Utilization Management, Case Management, Disease Management, hipaa Privacy and Claim Processing. For more information about Wausau Benefits, visit www.wausaubenefits.com . Brookfield-based Fiserv provides informat...

Katrina's destruction likely to speed up electronic healthcare records adoption

... sharing. "Those state laws that are getting in the way with privacy protection are really superseded by federal legislation in the form HIPAA, but hipaa requires that we pay attention to these state laws as well," Gorczynski explained. "So I think there's an example where the state could help in cleari...

Interview: Dr. William Yasnoff on health records, part 2

...ooperation is to use an existing mandate, which is HIPAA. One of the things hipaa says is that if a patient requests their information, and you have it, you ...very confident in your security. WTN: Going back to what you said about hipaa and interoperability, how would requiring each patient to be able to reques...

U.S. health system could undermine EHR progress

...among stakeholders, Yasnoff recommended leveraging the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). "We don't often think of hipaa as a friend," he said, "but HIPPA is an existing mandate. It requires information to be provided upon patient request."...

Managing the nightmare of identity theft

...e asked. Thomure disputed the contention that a hipaa violation occurred, and characterized Benson's pre...internal investigation, hiring an auditor to check hipaa compliance, and notifying patients after efforts t...to do," he said. Verberne, however, noted that hipaa doesn't require best practices, but that hospitals...

Identity theft: The business time bomb

...rkplace identity theft. What you can do: Understand what legislation may apply to your business. Appoint an information security officer if hipaa or GLBA applies. Develop policies, procedures and training for FACTA and other applicable legislation. Conduct and document employee training ...

Careful with that electronic health record, Mr. Leavitt

...airly in this very competitive field. However, dentists themselves do not know where to turn for information about what is expected of them concerning hipaa and EHRs, even while the technology rumbles recklessly forward, gaining ever increasing momentum. Patient privacy is not a priority in the Bush Ad...

Data centers: Blowing smoke and raising red flags

...with new compliance issues required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as hipaa , data centers and the information they store must comply with the new regu...o a fiber optic infrastructure? Has the emergence of Sarbanes-Oxley and hipaa compliance changed your offerings? Do you see any municipal support for...

Privacy, trust still the biggest barriers to electronic record sharing

...as fast as clinicians would like, she said. Before any additional laws and regulations are adopted, she said health providers would like to see the hipaa framework fully implemented and get a sense of how it's working. For the record The risk (and benefit) of electronic medical records is in the...