• ‘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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  If you are looking to achieve meaningful use to qualify for Electronic Health Record (EHR), eGestalt’s SecureGRC offers a comprehensive information security & compliance solution ensuring that your patients’ health information is protected at all times.
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• Reliable Electronic Records Retention in the eDiscovery Process
  The failure to properly maintain and monitor a corporate electronic records retention policy can create substantial risk for both the corporation & its employees. Clearwell helps companies to evaluate and consider how their records management programs impact electronic records.
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• Tax Return Filed? Now Consider Your Records
  No one likes organizing records. If you just finished your tax return filings the last thing you want to do is look at them again. But now is the perfect time and it pays dividends. Here’s why.
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• Unencrypted Stolen Devices- A Persistent Threat
  The health industry is continuously plagued by one major threat which has been the cause for most security breaches in the recent past: The loss or theft of unencrypted devices. Updates to the federal tally of health information breaches clearly indicate that lost or stolen unencrypted computing devices are an ongoing problem with at least eight of 10 incidents added to the tally during the past month stemming from lost/stolen unencrypted devices.
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