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New Records Technology Pushes Alliance Ahead

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New records technology pushes Alliance ahead In Healdsburg and Windsor, Alliance Medical Center is adopting state-of-the-art medical record technology designed to enhance patient care and facilitate communication among providers. Read more on The Healdsburg Tribune Tags: healdsburg tribune, Record, patient

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Breast Cancer Patient Claims Discrimination by Landlord

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Breast cancer patient claims discrimination by landlord Woman told she can't renew apartment lease by herself Woman told she can't renew apartment lease by herself. Read more on Chicago Tribune Tags: breast cancer patient, woman, patient, apartment lease, breast cancer, landlord

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Hipaa Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Health Care Professionals

by HIPAA

HIPAA Plain and Simple demystifies the complex HIPAA regulations for those in the medical office who have direct patient contact or are responsible for safeguarding patient information. It is written by HIPAA authorities in plain language so that everyone in the office, from new employees to the receptionist to the physician's management team, will understand [...]

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Avaya Improves Patient Care and Satisfaction With Communications-Enabled Healthcare Applications

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Avaya Improves Patient Care and Satisfaction With Communications-Enabled Healthcare Applications BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(Marketwire - 05/04/10) - Avaya today announced it is helping hospitals improve patient care and reduce costs by integrating real-time, intelligent communications into healthcare software applications. These healthcare applications -- powered by Avaya Agile Communications Environment (ACE) and IBM's Health Integration Framework -- [...]

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Accurate and Time-Bound Medical Transcription Services

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Accurate and time-bound medical transcription services enable healthcare facilities to maintain high quality, updated medical reports. Medical transcription companies help in the efficient administration of patient records, allowing physicians and hospitals to focus on their professional work. There are innumerable transcription companies offering reliable and time-bound services at competitive rates. Selecting a Reputable Provider Online [...]

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HIPAA Policies & Procedures Desk Reference

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Product DescriptionComprehensive reference addresses cultural and regulatory changes regarding patient privacy in today's healthcare environment. Offers a wide-range of HIPAA policies and procedures for customization of physicians' medical practices. Three-ring binder with tabbed dividers and looseleaf pages. HIPAA Policies & Procedures Desk Reference Tags: desk reference, ring binder, Procedures, DescriptionComprehensive

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Report Remote Patient Monitoring on the Upswing FierceHealthIT

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Report: Remote patient monitoring on the upswingFierceHealthITFierceHealthIT is the leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas. Join 30000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthIT via weekly email for their must know IT ... and more& » Read the full story: Report: Remote [...]

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HIPAA Medical Transcription for Physician Practices

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Physician practices should go in for HIPAA compliant medical transcription services so as to ensure confidentiality of patient information. Only HIPAA medical transcription can ensure the safety of dictated physician reports. HIPAA Compliance in Policies and Procedures HIPAA medical transcription for physician practices ensure that their business practices, workflow and applications and physical and electronic [...]

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Hipaa Compliance| Things to Know About Breach Notification

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What should your healthcare organization do if a nurse hands a patient someone else’s discharge papers but promptly discovers the error and retrieves the protected health information? Would it have to report as a breach of unsecured PHI under HIPAA notifications? Well, it depends on the situation would not amount to a breach if the [...]

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Hipaa Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Healthcare

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HIPAA Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Health Care Professionals is a valuable, must-read resource for frontline patient interaction. The guide simplifies the complex HIPAA regulations for those in the medical office who have direct patient contact or are responsible for safeguarding patient information. Each chapter contains "what to do" and "how to do [...]

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Griffin Hospital Reports Breach of Dozens of Patient Medical Records

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Griffin Hospital reports breach of dozens of patient medical records DERBY -- The state Attorney General's office is investigating a breach of patient medical records by a former Griffin Hospital radiologist who reportedly used the information to solicit patients for treatment outside the hospital. Read more on Connecticut Post Tags: breach, Medical, patient, Hospital, Read, [...]

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Healthcare Providers to Improve Patient Care Online

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Healthcare providers to improve patient care online SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) - Healthcare professionals are improving patient care with the click of a mouse. Trident Medical System is the first in the state to use a life-saving computer program OACIS, in its emergency rooms. Read more on Live 5 News Charleston Tags: Healthcare, patient, providers, trident [...]

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I Have a Paper on Privacy and Im Gonna Write About the Hipaa Laws?

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I have a paper on privacy and im gonna write about the hipaa laws? i have to argue both sides of it, like how its a good thing and how it might be bad like patient/doctor privacy and the ethics of it but im not sure what to say about it any tips? Tags: Paper, [...]

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Transitioning to EMR – Is It Worth It?

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A lot of healthcare providers in the US healthcare industry as well as in the government are now familiar with EMR or electronic medical records. <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/1180897']);" href="http://www.healthtec-software.com/fusion.htm">EMR</a> is a computerized edition of the traditional paper-based medical record of a patient.  The EMR should not be confused or interchanged with EHR as both [...]

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What Are HIPAA Compliant Medical Transcription Services

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act came into existence in 1996.The first part of the HIPAA Compliant Medical Transcription Services Act basically deals with the health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they lose or change their jobs. The second part of the Act deals with the establishment of national standards for [...]

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Is It a HIPAA Violation to Contact a Former Patient?

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I am actually a paramedic and would like to follow up on a former patient of mine through facebook. I am not sure if it would be a privacy violation or something. Tags: hipaa violation, privacy violation, violation, patient, facebook hipaa and contacting former patients, hipaa compliance violations 2011, is contacting a patient a hipaa [...]

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Is Faxing a Prescription to a Patients Regular Pharmacy Considered a Hipaa Violation?

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the patient asked the nurse and requested that her discharge prescription be faxed to her regular pharmacy. Tags: Nurse, hipaa violation, Pharmacy faxing in a prescription, prescriptions faxed from patient

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Is It in Violation of the HIPAA Laws to Disclose if Someone Is in or Being Treated in Hospital ER?

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I've read the HIPAA rules and am unclear if a hospital or hospital employee is in violation of HIPAA if they disclose that someone is a patient in the ER, if someone calls and asks. I thought the hospital couldn't divulge this information to anyone without permission from the patient being seen in the ER. [...]

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HIPAA Medical Transcription for Clinics and Hospitals

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HIPAA medical transcription services for clinics and hospitals ensure greater privacy and security for all the patient medical records and data. The majority of healthcare facilities including acute care centers, nursing homes, clinics and hospitals take care to ensure that their medical transcription service provider is one who offers HIPAA compliant solutions. HIPAA Compliance for [...]

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