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Category Archives: HIPAA Compliance
New Look, New Features: Live Wednesday April 18
Practice Fusion will be getting a new look – with new features – debuting this Wednesday (April 18). These features are designed to improve usability and provide you with enhanced functionality, such as prescription eligibility and formulary information. Read on to learn how to use the new features and navigate the improved interface. New Navigation The navigation bar has been made simpler, clearer and less cluttered: 1. Get help: Click on Get Help to access Live Chat and other methods… read more >
Who Should Control Cradle-to-Grave Health Records?
Health IT is evolving quickly, and the concept of a cradle-to-grave patient health record, aggregated from all the different places where pieces of one’s health story are found, is no longer such science-fiction. The emergence of interoperable networks is beginning to mature, and is a central focus for health IT in 2012. Whether that involves traditional Health Information Exchange (HIE) hubs (an institution-centered play), or a more direct point-to-point method, or an “extend the platform” approach made possible as a… read more >
Posted in Health Policy, HIPAA Compliance
Tagged big data, cloud computing, HIPAA, PHR, privacy
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New Medical Role: Tracker
Two recent news stories caught my eye. One is about a pharmaceutical package produced by Proteus Biomedical, a U.S. company, that will be on the market in the UK this fall. A patient’s medication will be shrink wrapped for each dose. As an example, the first package in the morning may include four pills for medication and an additional pill. When the patient opens the package and swallows all five pills the fifth one is activated by liquid in the… read more >
mHealth Challenges Around Privacy and HIPAA
Emerging technologies are beginning to blur the traditional, clear distinctions around privacy and health data – this is especially true with mobile health (mHealth) solutions. Those involved in regulatory circles are trying to develop a cohesive framework that will encourage innovation, while at the same time protect consumer privacy. A little background… General consumer privacy around Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is addressed by a set of rules that affect everyone. At the federal level, PII is defined in certain standards… read more >
Should There Be National Patient ID Numbers?
One of the challenges in connecting the dots in health care – linking together all the fragments of health data about a given patient that is scattered widely across many different settings of care – is trying to match patient identities. The practice-internal ID number given to a patient in one medical practice has no bearing on the one given to the same patient in a different practice. Even the names may be slightly different (there are multiple variations of… read more >
