Firings over HIPAA breaches At Universities

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HIPAA violations remind hospitals to reinforce privacy rules
By Dom Nicastro

There’s one message Dena Boggan, CPC, CMC, CCP, a privacy and security officer in Mississippi, wants to get across during her HIPAA training: “I tell my employees if they don’t remember anything else about HIPAA, remember this — only access that information which you need to do your job. Period. I tell them if they follow that one simple rule, they’ll do just fine.”

Some healthcare employees just can’t help themselves lately, especially when high-profile patients occupy their hospital beds.Read more

NEF Events Launch Entrepreneurs into 2011

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 11, 2011,

Do you know what your customers really want? When was the last time you did any market research? Or sought out your customers' opinions on your product or service? January meeting panelists Debra Power of brand strategy support firm Power Marketing and Research, and Paula Sorrell Rhoades, Marketing Specialist for several MI tech start-ups and author of widely used market research tools, will share their tips on getting valuable information from present and prospective customers to help you develop better products and increase market share.Read more

TherapyCharts is Named Semi-Finalist in the World's Largest Business Competition

TherapyCharts is Named Semi-Finalist in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the World's Largest Business Competition

$1 million in cash winnings and in-kind services draws worldwide interest. Read more

A Practical Overview of Health Reform and Wellness

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A Practical Overview of Health Reform and Wellness
The historic yet overwhelmingly complex Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will strongly affect all aspects of medical care delivery, for better and worse. The 907-page mega law features wellness prominently and uses the word wellness 86 times. The most pertinent wellness issues are in the Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health Section (Title IV).

Key Wellness Provisions
-Provide small business grants to help pay for a wellness program.Read more

How will you and your organization achieve HIPAA compliance?

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As the deadline for compliance approaches, the big question on everyone's tongue is what is the greatest path to compliance and efficiency? The options include managing the process in-house, taking a blended approach using internal resources and external support or electing to fully outsource to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider.Read more

Drug Rehabilitation Resources in Pennsylvania

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Looking for treatment resources in Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania Drug Rehab Finders offer comprehensive drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment resources, in-depth information about addiction treatment centers, and no-cost referral services for Pennsylvania drug treatment centers and PA alcohol rehab addiction treatment programs.

PA Alcohol Rehab can help you find the right alcohol rehab and drug rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania.

Securing your records

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Last year’s HITECH Act toughened the rules and enforcement penalties health information handlers must follow to protect patient privacy.

Under the new policy regime, providers will have to pay more attention to the confidentiality and safety of patient information as they move more of their operations toward electronic health record-keeping.Read more

TherapyCharts Awarded "Best Of Biotech" by the Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest

GLEQ hosted its Statewide Business Plan Competition Award Ceremony at the University Club on the Michigan State University campus on Thursday, June 10, 2010 with partner organizations Automation Alley, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, and the Michigan SmartZones. At the event, Greg Main, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., presented the $5,000 cash "Best of Biotech" award to Therapy Charts, represented at the event by Mark LeBay, Director of Marketing.Read more

HHS Invests Additional $162 Million For Health Information Technology

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Final awards of state health information exchange cooperative agreement program work to build health information exchange infrastructure throughout the states.Read more

Electronic Health Records – How they Effect Mental Health and Behavioral Healthcare Organizations

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The National Council quick poll revealed that 26 percent of behavioral healthcare and mental health organizations with functional EHRs realized improved quality assurance. Twenty two percent had been able to reduce billing errors and 17 percent realized improved clinical productivity with EHR implementation. Providers also point out that the EHR offers critical support to the service improvement process.Read more