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Privacy & Security Tiger Team Hunts Balance

06/16/2010 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

The HIT Policy Committee’s new Privacy and Security Tiger Team workgroup is striving to establish the requirements that intermediaries in personal health information (PHI) message transactions will be subject to. Under HIPAA, parties which have access to PHI are deemed covered entities (CEs), required to establish business associate agreements (BAAs) which obligate them to handle the data in certain ways. With the rise of health information exchange under the HITECH Act, the Office of the National Coordinator created the Tiger Team to provide it with guidance in governing health information organizations (HIOs) — or third-party intermediaries which have varying degrees of involvement with the messages.

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Filed Under: Privacy/Security Tagged With: Arien Malec, Deven McGraw, Dixie Baker, HIPAA, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Policy Committee Privacy and Security Tiger Team, NHIN Direct, Paul Egerman, Wes Rishel

Data Security – Pay Now or Pay (More) Later

04/28/2010 By Rich Temple Leave a Comment

As we enter the era of Meaningful Use, we are truly seeing an increased realization of the central role that IT plays in provider strategic planning.  Happily, we are also starting see recognition from many corners of healthcare organizations of the wisdom of making targeted, shrewd, IT investments as down payments on organizations’ futures. And […]

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Filed Under: Privacy/Security Tagged With: Blogs, data security, HIPAA, HITECH, Rich Temple

HIMSS Survey Shows Security a Dark Cloud

03/02/2010 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

Other than a major focus on Meaningful Use and clinical systems, security concerns are a top priority, with one third of respondents (34 percent) saying an internal breach was their top worry in that area, and nearly one-quarter (23 percent) said their organization had a security breach in the past year, according to 21st Annual […]

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Filed Under: HIE, Privacy/Security Tagged With: HIMSS, HIMSS Analytics, HIPAA

One-on-One w/KLAS Clinical GM Jason Hess (III)

02/20/2010 By Anthony Guerra 1 Comment

Before the term HIE appeared in the pages of HITECH, many CIOs didn’t pay it much attention, preferring instead to focus on getting their houses in order. While that’s still a great strategy, healthcare informatics leaders now have no choice but to dip their toes into the murky waters of inter-organizational information exchange. While many […]

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Filed Under: HIE, Privacy/Security Tagged With: Anthony Guerra, Axolotl, GE Healthcare, HIPAA, Jason Hess, KLAS, Medicity, Meditech, one-on-one, Siemens Healthcare

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