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Your Policies and Procedures Are Incomplete If They Don’t Include a Security Risk Management Process

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Patient privacy and confidentiality of medical records is protected by the department of Health & Human Services through the HIPAA Security Rule. And, if your practice is using Electronic Health Record technology (EHR) and/or attesting to Meaningful Use, well-documented Policies and Procedures are at the heart of the HIPAA Security Rule Administrative Guidelines. The very first Administrative Standard refers to the prevention, detection, containment and correction of any security violations. As we’ve discussed over the last few weeks, if you are attesting to Meaningful Use, Measure 15 outlines the requirement of a security risk analysis that addresses potential security gaps [...]

E-Prescribing Tools For The Medical Practice Manager

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Have you ever tried to complete a task without all the tools? My husband is quite the handyman and he always needs tools for the job. He really hates it when he has to run out in the middle of completing something and get a tool or product to complete the job. Not having the proper tools can be so frustrating.

Don’t Worry – It’s All Being Recorded

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Documentation is becoming highly important in the medical practice world, even more than ever before – especially now in the era of meaningful use. Metadata (metacontent) is defined (in Wikipedia) as data providing information about one or more aspects of the data, such as: Means of creation of the data Purpose of the data Time and date of creation Creator or author of data Placement on a computer network where the data was created Standards used ……All the more reason to be documenting clearly, concisely and completely. Our Old Process of Recording in Charts In the olden days (without computers) [...]

Meaningful Use – Functional, Not Pretty

Monday, April 25th, 2011

First of all, I did not create the rules.  I understand them; but I did not create them.  That being said, I want to point out that your doctors may be thinking that their notes or documentation will still reflect the beautiful eloquent speech that they are so accustomed to providing even after they implement the Meaningful Use requirements.  That is debatable to say the least. Transcription has long been the answer to providing what doctors do with patients into a story of verbage that is grammatically and structurally correct.  However, now that most EHR systems are relational databases or [...]