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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 [...]

The 5 W’s to Implementing the Security Rules for Meaningful Use in Your Practice

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Meaningful Use Measure 15 is an extension of the privacy protection guaranteed to all Americans under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).  The goal of Meaningful Use Measure 15 is to specifically protect the electronic health information created or maintained by an Electronic Health Record (EHR) by demonstrating the implementation of appropriate technical safeguards. To demonstrate compliance with Measure 15, you must conduct a security risk analysis of your EHR technology, implement all new security updates and have a process in place to take corrective action when deficiencies in the technology are identified. Let’s take a deeper look [...]

Assessing Privacy and Security – Measure 15 of Meaningful Use

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

One of the most simple definitions I have heard for the term Meaningful Use (MU) is the fact that you as a participating medical practice, according to the provisions of the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), are demonstrating to CMS through certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) software that you are using the electronic data in a meaningful way.  Good for us that “meaningful” is defined through certain criteria (measures) so that it can be assessed and evaluated. However, these items could be audited….and in fact audits will begin this month. The Office for Civil Rights [...]

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) [...]