2011

In Sabharwal v. Mount Sinai Medical Center, Queens Hospital Center, and Won Chee, the plaintiff alleged employment discrimination in that she was subjected to a hostile work environment and unlawful discrimination by not being reappointed as the Assistant Director of Anesthesia on account of age, sex and disability. The plaintiff requested production of certain records…

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a Notice of Final Determination, marking the first civil money penalty issued by HHS for HIPAA Privacy Rule violations, finding that Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, Md., (Cignet) violated the…

Eric Liederman of Kaiser Permanente gave an interesting talk at HIMSS11 on protecting privacy without harming patients.  It is not uncommon for many audit trails to be full of non-essential information and not helpful in investigating security and privacy breaches.  The HIPAA Security Rule requires, among other things, a security risk analysis and the implementation of…

At HIMSS11, NCQA presented a session on the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards and its alignment with meaningful use.  It also advocates the use of electronic health records in implementing its PCMH model and that it would assist providers in achieving meaningful use.  NCQA recently released its 2011 PCMH model as of January 31, 2011.…

Every once in a while we try to provide some information that is interesting, helpful and a little different than our usual fair. I have attached a link to an article provided by nursingschools.net describing amazing emerging advances in medical technology. For the readers who would like more of this type of information, I have added nursing.net…

The Commonwealth has developed a series of webinars, FAQ’s, and other useful information to prepare Pennsylvania health care providers for electronic health record implementation and adoption.  It also includes information from the Pennsylvania Regional Extension Center – PA REACH East and PA REACH West. 
 
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