http://netvouz.com/lillymark/tag/meaningful?feed=rss lillymark's bookmarks tagged "meaningful" on Netvouz http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/08/09/meaningful-use-audits-begin-are-you-ready/ Have you attested to ‘meaningful use’ of EHR? If so, here’s some important news for you: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have hired a New York based accounting firm, Figliozzi & Company to carry out audits to determine compliance with ‘meaningful use’. Hospitals and physician practices which have qualified for Medicare EHR Meaningful Use (MU) incentives will be audited soon. lillymark Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:39:41 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/06/08/2012-10-largest-data-breaches/ We’re hardly half-way through 2012, and the year has witnessed a heaving number of data breaches already! Ranging from data theft and negligence to disgruntled employees and carelessness, a wide range of data breaches has been noted so far, and the problem seems to be only growing. lillymark Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:14:44 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2015/01/06/adopting-guilt-free-meaningful-use-of-ehr/ Adopting a Guilt-Free Method to Demonstrate Meaningful Use of EHR IT Security and Compliance Management Blogs lillymark Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:20:44 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/01/11/aggressive-action-follows-hipaa-violation-more-trouble-for-tricare/ Although occurring at varying degrees, data breaches are now more frequent than ever before. The TRICARE breach which is the largest ever since the HIPAA notification rule came into effect, has been in the news for quite some time now. Affecting 4.9 million beneficiaries of the military healthcare program, this breach attracted immediate and stringent legal action. lillymark Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:55:36 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2014/06/10/are-mu-audits-causing-nightmares-for-cios/ Besides serious time and resource commitment, every “Meaningful Use” audit results in a lot of stress. Healthcare enterprises heave a sigh of relief after passing an EHR Incentive Program audit, assuming they don’t have to bother anymore as they have proved their meaningful use merit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS lillymark Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:22:05 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/10/01/health-information-breach-tally-soon-to-cross-20-million/ The tally of healthcare information breaches seems to be steadily increasing despite security regulations and associated legal action. The breach tally is soon to exceed 20 million once three recent breach incidents are added. With 410 incidents affecting nearly 19.2 million individuals since September 2009, the breach tally is now already at a record high. As of April 24th this year, the breach list includes four new breaches reported in 2012. lillymark Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:35:00 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/08/27/health-records-held-for-ransom-medical-data-blackmail-on-the-rise/ Hackers find yet another way to makequick money. Once they have managed to get hold of your health records by hacking into your system, they encrypt them and hold them for a ransom. With more and more health records going digital, this shocking trend has put healthcare entities on high alert once again. lillymark Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:09:58 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2012/09/03/hipaa-and-meaningful-use-now-tightly-intertwined/ The provisions of the two final rules of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use released last week have attracted significant attention, especially the rule demanding retention of patient engagement obligations. However, what is more striking is how these two final rules are intertwined with the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA, although many commenters on the proposed rules have asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remove redundancies. lillymark Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:29:33 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/meaningful-use-reporting.html eGestalt’s SecureGRC has built-in assessment of meaningful use that produces a report ready to be used for filing the online application for grant. It addresses the requirements relating to meaningful use core measures, menu measures & clinical quality measures with respect to risk analysis lillymark Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:38:08 GMT http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2014/05/23/is-meaningful-use-requirement-triggering-panic-youre-not-alone/ Although only a small percent of healthcare entities actually go through a "Meaningful Use" audit, in reality it is the anxiety of a single misstep, setting off an audit or a penalty that is a major concern for a number of healthcare CIOs. - lillymark Mon, 26 May 2014 10:22:00 GMT