In a recent report on HIPAA breach trends, the HHS shared that breaches involving business associates or third-party vendors between January and June 2021 accounted for 40% of all HIPAA breaches. Because of the damaging consequences of any HIPAA breach, it’s useful for providers to understand the potential risks medical practices face when working with others.
Intraprise Health has partnered with AdvancedMD to automate and simplify your HIPAA compliance using industry-leading security, privacy, and breach risk assessment software, HIPAA One®. Trusted by over 7,000 medical practices, HIPAA One® automates over 82% of the tasks required to perform a HIPAA risk assessment so you can focus on what matters most, treating patients. … Continued
Medicare introduced reimbursement for RPM in 2019, making it no cost to most seniors with at least one chronic condition. Acknowledging the increased risks and challenges of medical office visits by seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS has recently made these notable changes.
On June 29, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Cybersecurity Program released a news article on vulnerabilities in PACS, picture archiving and communication systems.
Scoring well in quality has just become more difficult. Your quality score on each quality measure is based upon ‘Deciles’. Think of it as being graded on the curve.
Amidst all of the other events in Washington DC in January, a law was passed that amended the HIPAA Regulations. The amendment requires the department of Health and Human Services to take certain items into account during a HIPAA investigation.
Interoperability between your systems is as important as your billing, EHR and lab systems. You need a secure HIPAA compliant and highly redundant Interoperability service in AWS to ensure 24/7 availability of data. Falkondata Integration and Interoperability as a Service simplifies flow of data between different systems by building, managing, maintaining and monitoring interfaces for … Continued
When we discuss HIPAA most of the articles have been on security and breaches, but HIPAA goes well beyond privacy and security. One aspect of the HIPAA rule is the “Right of Access”. OCR (The Office for Civil Rights – the branch of HHS the enforces HIPAA) is enforcing this law even more strongly since … Continued
The Thanksgiving and holiday seasons are just around the corner. Can you believe it?! Wow! What a year! As is customary, we’re celebrating with a free trial of any of our add-on products to make your AdvancedMD experience more complete. Simply choose one ore more features and we’ll waive your new subscription fees until January … Continued
Our upcoming Fall 2020 Release is part of our tri-annual major product release cycle. Our phased rollout starts October 29 and ends November 19. AdvancedMD is a customer, market and product-led company, which means we are constantly collecting feedback from our users and community to ensure our offerings are aligned with your expectations and market … Continued
Craig Cooper, product manager at AdvancedMD, was recently interviewed about how to digitize your practice to boost staff efficiency and decrease wait times. Physicians enter the medical profession because they want to take care of patients, not focus on administrative tasks. Yet these tasks continue to dominate their time and attention, leading to frustration and … Continued
As part of the ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, John Lynn at Healthcare IT Today interviewed Tim Costantino, VP, Head of Product at AdvancedMD. In this series, Healthcare IT News talks with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. Are they developing telehealth in-house or are they relying on partners? … Continued