Understanding and Preventing Medical Data Breaches In today’s digital age, healthcare providers face an ever-growing threat: the medical data breach. With sensitive patient information at stake, it’s crucial for healthcare […]
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Having an electronic health record (EHR) system that works for you is more important now than ever. If you are unhappy with your current EHR technology, you are not alone
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ICD-10 compliance is now less than a year away and a Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) survey showed that larger groups and facilities are being proactive while others seems
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has debuted a public online database of hospital charges for the hundred most common inpatient procedures. The Obama administration’s efforts to bring
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The Department of Health and Human Services recently named Lyfechannel’s myfamily app as the winner of its Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by HHS’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health
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Utah’s Department of Health has reported its second data breach within the past year. This incident involved the personal information of approximately 6,000 Medicaid patients. On January 10th, an employee
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The multi-agency Medicare Fraud Strike Force charged 91 people for allegedly participating in schemes amounting to almost $430 million in Medicare fraud. The second such major raid by the government
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San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. has announced plans to acquire MED3000, a developer of physician group management, billing, and revenue cycle tools based in Pittsburgh. This comes a week after McKesson
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The University of Miami Hospital (UMH) has disclosed that two employees were accessing patients’ personal information inappropriately and may have sold it to a third party. According to officials at
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A recent survey found that 96 percent of medical practices are concerned about the potential impact of the transition to ICD-10, now scheduled for October 1, 2014. At the same
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