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Attorney: Pre-HITECH Business Associate Contracts "Probably Need To Be Torn Up"
November 16, 2009 7:38 AM by Jay Vance

Writing for American Medical News , attorney Steven Harris warns of new requirements for contracts between covered entities and business associates post-HITECH: Think your business associate agreements sufficiently protect your rights? Now figure in new Read More...

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Arrests Made In Indian Black Market Medical Records Investigation
November 12, 2009 10:30 AM by Jay Vance

The Daily Mail Online is reporting today that two arrests have been made and an arrest warrant is out on a third suspect in the case of confidential health records being offered for sale to undercover journalists. Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode, the head of Read More...

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Indian Business Consultant Says U.S. Largely Responsible For Demand For Black Market Medical Records
November 3, 2009 3:23 AM by Jay Vance

From Na Vijayashankar ("Naavi") at www.naavi.org comes a strong response to the Indian black market medical records scandal in general and the resulting comments by Webmedx CEO Sean Carroll in particular (emphases mine): "To put the incident in the proper Read More...

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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 4: Protecting ePHI - Technical Safeguards
October 26, 2009 5:23 AM by Jay Vance

164.312 Technical safeguards: A CE must, in accordance with the general rule: (a) Standard: Access control. Implement technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain ePHI to allow access only to those persons or software Read More...

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New Study: Electronic Health Information Security A Problem In U.S. Too
October 20, 2009 9:37 AM by Jay Vance

From Reuters comes word of a new survey of health information technology professionals that paints a sobering portrait of the state of health information security here in the U.S.: According to the October 2009 Ponemon report, Electronic Health Information Read More...

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Potential Offshore Outsourcing Catastrophe - Medical Records For Sale In India
October 19, 2009 7:47 AM by Jay Vance

According to articles in The Economic Times and The Daily Mail , an undercover investigation by Britain's ITV1 television program "Tonight" has revealed that medical records of UK citizens are available for purchase from Indian black marketeers. Quoting Read More...

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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 3: Protecting ePHI - Physical Safeguards
October 9, 2009 11:26 PM by Jay Vance

Quoting from HIPAA Regulation: §164.312 A covered entity must, in accordance with § 164.306 : (a) (1) Standard: Facility access controls. Implement policies and procedures to limit physical access to its electronic information systems and the facility Read More...

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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 2: Protecting ePHI - Administrative Safeguards
September 28, 2009 1:18 PM by Jay Vance

For this second installment in a series of articles on the added responsibilities for transcription service providers under HITECH, I'll be drawing heavily from information from the HIPAA Survival Guide , specifically the section regarding the HIPAA Security Read More...

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HIPAA, HITECH And Medical Transcription, Part 1: New Responsibilities For Business Associates
September 23, 2009 4:48 PM by Jay Vance

In this first installment in a series of articles about how the HITECH portion of the ARRA legislation (also known as the stimulus bill) will change the way medical transcriptionists operate, I want to focus on some of the new obligations for business Read More...

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Are Medical Transcription's Days Numbered?
September 22, 2009 7:26 AM by Jay Vance

From a post on MTChat.com : I think MTs are going to start losing actual real jobs a whole heap sooner in greater numbers than most of us are willing to admit is already happening. It is happening here in our area now and we do have a pretty good working Read More...

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CMS HIPAA Security Review: Encryption & Employee Background Checks Mandatory, MT Providers Next Under The Microscope?
August 31, 2009 1:40 PM by Jay Vance

From the blog of attorney Adam Russo comes a review of an article from Report On Patient Privacy newsletter regarding the recent HIPAA Compliance Review Analysis report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): The first batch Read More...

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