Is Meaningful Use Still Meaningful?
Originally designed as part of HITECH to encourage providers to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), meaningful use was a means to an end – towards improved population health and better patient care among fragmented providers. The program prioritized five pillars of health outcomes:
Moving mountains: Why a healthcare compliance consultant might be your new best friend
Read on for 5 reasons to hire a consultant who can help you remove roadblocks and push your security and compliance strategy forward.
What is HIPAA Compliance Software? The Fundamental Guide
HIPAA compliance software is a powerful security and compliance resource to protect against breach. This guide outlines the features you should look for when purchasing a solution, along with potential implementation roadblocks and how to address them.
My Security Risk Audit Is Complete. Now What?
Risk areas can be found in virtually every corner of a hospital or healthcare provider these days. How do you keep up with it all? By performing rigorous and regular security risk audits.
ComplyAssistant and Furnace Brook Healthcare Management Advisors
ComplyAssistant and Furnace Brook Healthcare Management Advisors partner to offer solutions that help healthcare organizations manage their compliance programs.
How a Functional Compliance Program Can Protect PHI
Before the digitization of healthcare records, protected health information (PHI) was mainly stored on paper charts and records and in data centers. The value of personal information was low. Now, however, ePHI is extremely valuable, and attackers will find a way in. As we way in the industry, “it’s not a matter of if. It’s when.” Healthcare organizations fend off tens of thousands of attacks every day.
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Shall We Play A Game?
Computer hackers have been around almost as long as computers themselves, but the risks to healthcare organizations are growing. On today’s episode, we explore cybersecurity in hospitals and health systems–what information hackers want, what to do after a breach occurs, and how to avoid one in the first place.
Security Risk Audits And Risk Mitigation Plans To Protect PHI
In today’s fast-paced world, there is no limit to the number of risk areas that can be identified during a security risk audit. And, performing the audit is not enough. Healthcare organizations must establish rigorous controls and governance to mitigate identified risks.
ComplyAssistant and PHIflow Launch Collaborative Solution for HIPAA Business Associate Risk Management
ComplyAssistant and PHIflow today announced a collaborative partnership to provide healthcare covered entities (CEs) with a comprehensive solution for the management of their HIPAA business associates (BAs).
What are HIPAA Security Risk Assessments? The Fundamental Guide
Conducting regular HIPAA security risk assessments helps covered entities ensure compliance with HIPAA’s administrative, physical and technical safeguards, and helps expose areas where an organization’s protected health information (PHI) could be at risk.
4 Free Tools for Healthcare Compliance Management
Because our healthcare compliance consultants have been in this industry for so long, we’ve been able to combine and share our expertise in these free healthcare compliance management tools, available 24/7 on our website.