Microsoft recently announced that, after April 8, 2014, it will not longer provide security updates or technical support for Windows XP. Microsoft’s statement that “businesses that are governed by regulatory obligations such as HIPAA may find that they are no longer able to satisfy compliance requirements” has spurred a certain level of panic among health
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HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance: Is Your Practice Ready?
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HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance: Is Your Practice Ready?
On January 17, 2013, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released a Final Rule, commonly known as the “HIPAA Omnibus Rule,” which included significant changes to the HIPAA compliance requirements for healthcare covered entities, including private practice rehabilitation and medical providers. The compliance…
CERT event on health information exchanges – June 26, 2013 – Pittsburgh, PA (with live stream and underwritten by HHS)
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Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
The CERT program is having a free all-day event tomorrow (June 26, 2013) in Pittsburgh, PA on security incident management for health information exchanges. This event is underwritten by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Registration is free, but required. http://www.cert.org/cybersecurity-hie/. The event will be live and …
Healtheway (formerly National Health Information Network – NHIN) Announces its Founding Organizations
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Contributed by Lee Kim
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Healtheway was previously known as the National Helath Information Network. It is a non-profit public-private partnership and has announced today its nine founding members. These members include the American Medical Association, Epic, Kaiser Permanente, New York eHealth Collaborative, among others.
For the full press release, please see http://finance.yahoo.com/news/healtheway-announces-founding-members-groundbreaking-110000367.html.
Health information security and healthcare technology
By Michael Cassidy on
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Lee Kim has been selected to the HIMSS Privacy and Security Committee for this coming fiscal year.
In addition, she recently gave a talk on mobile healthcare information security on May 30, 2013 at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit. A review of her talk (and those of others) can be found here: http://blog.secureideas.com/2013/06/sans-mobile-summit-2013-recap.html.…
The Health IT Legal Landscape: Policy Changes and Practical Examples in a post-Omnibus Privacy Rule World
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Lee Kim will be speaking at the Government Health IT Conference on June 11-12, 2013 in Washington, D.C. addressing changes due to the Omnibus Privacy Rule. Privacy and security requirements for health data can be complex and intimidating. HIPAA and HITECH, and now the January 2013 release of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule have a very practical…
Negotiating an Electronic Health Record Agreement: A Marriage Between Healthcare and Technology
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Lee Kim will be giving a webinar on negotiating electronic health record agreements on Thursday, June 20, 2013.
EHR’s are increasingly outsourced services provided by specialty vendors who can take advantage of economics of scale and concentrated expertise. But this means that mission-critical health care functions are more dependent on complex systems the provider does not…
mHealth’s Impact: The Most Rapid Transformation in Healthcare Today
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Lee Kim will be presenting a webinar for HIMSS on May 22nd entitled, "Regulation and Innovation in mHealth: What You Need to Know to Successfully Play in the mHealth Space" as part of the HIMSS Virtual Forum on mHealth’s Impact: The Most Rapid Transformation in Healthcare Today. A summary of the presentation can be
Healthcare to Go: Securing Mobile Healthcare Data
By Michael Cassidy on
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Tucker Arensberg attorney, Lee Kim, will be speaking at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit 2013 in Anaheim, California on May 30. Lee will be discussing the challenges of securing healthcare data and implementation of security controls in the mobile space.
Proposed Rules Relating to Donated EHR software and certain related items to services to physicians
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CMS and the Office of Inspector General at HHS (OIG) have respectively published proposed rules to extend the sunset dates for the Stark exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor permitting donations of EHR software and certain related items and services to physicians. These provisions are set to expire on December 31, 2013. Both agencies have proposed almost…