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Vital Signs
UMass uses social media to 'make life easier'
By Ashok Selvam | July 09, 2013
“Looking for connections and ways to make life easier” were the goals at UMass Memorial Medical Center when staff at a hospital in Worcester, Mass., began beefing up its social media presence.
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Information
States' hospital data for sale puts privacy in jeopardy
By Bloomberg | June 06, 2013
Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient's health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person's identity to medical conditions using public information.
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Information
Health data will be locked down
By Chuck Soder, Crain's Cleveland Business | June 03, 2013
HIPAA isn't just for healthcare providers anymore. The federal law that requires your doctor to protect your privacy soon will apply to other organizations that come in contact with patient data.
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News
Lingering security woes cost Idaho university $400K
By Joseph Conn | May 31, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with HHS' Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic.
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WEDI announces ICD-10 best-practices initiative
By Joseph Conn | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The creation of the WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative was announced last week in Las Vegas during the annual national conference of the not-for-profit Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange.
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Vital Signs
Business associates tied to big breaches
By Joseph Conn | May 16, 2013
Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help.I'm only being partially facetious.
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IT Everything: Health IT Blog — Business associates tied to big breaches
By Joseph Conn | May 16, 2013
Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help. I'm only being partially facetious.
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IT Everything: Health IT Blog – Why is 'snitched' data more satisfying?
By Joseph Conn | May 14, 2013
It's been said, “There's no melon like a snitched melon.”Is there something about sneaking into someone else's patch and purloining a plump one that makes it taste sweeter?
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Magazine
At odds over privacy | Rx industry pushes back against refill reminder rule
By Joseph Conn | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A showdown is shaping up between federal healthcare privacy regulators and the nation's largest pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers over a healthcare privacy rule affecting upwards of 100 million prescription-refill reminders sent to patients each year.
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Magazine
Health data shared all too freely, and other letters
By Modern Healthcare | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In response to your recent article “CVS cancels pharma-funded Rx reminders citing new HIPAA rule,” it is entirely inappropriate to use a person's personal healthcare information without specific consent to do...
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