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Proposed National Standard for Data Breach Notification

Will the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act impact current breach notification requirements? President Obama is calling for a national standard for data breach notification. The proposed standard will...

ICD-10 Update

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yet another delay for ICD-10. This time, the delay will benefit providers. CMS has pushed out the ICD-10 testing deadline to January 21, 2015. CMS will use...

Cover Your Attestation Requirements

A Two-Part Series on Attestation Requirements and Training. In addition to Meaningful Use Attestation requirements, many insurance companies are asking for Annual Compliance Attestation for organizations to validate...

Question about providing an electronic copy of a medical record

Recently a question was asked about providing a patient medical record in electronic format: If you store patient information in your systems electronically, should a copy of the medical record be provided to the...

New Phase in Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Announced

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the bidding timeline for Round 2 Recompete and the national mail-order recompete of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and...

Health IT Plan focuses on better sharing through interoperability

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the Federal IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. The Strategic Plan is currently...

CMS announces rules that enhance Medicare provider oversight

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavennar recently announced new rules that strengthen oversight of Medicare providers. The new safeguards are designed to prevent physicians...

Data brief reveals top reasons for EHR adoption

A data brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) revealed the top reasons for EHR adoption. The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial...

Medical Assistant Credentialing is Not Just a Stage 2 Requirement

After last week's post regarding the Credentialed Medical Assistant requirement under Meaningful Use, we were asked the following question: If we are not attesting to Stage 2 until next year, when should...

New and Improved Business Associate Agreement

Since the HIPAA Omnibus Rule came out last year, there has been much discussion about the relationship and responsibility of each party between covered entities and business associates. Due to this, we have recently...