It is not unusual for me to rant here about the ridiculous level of recklessness the medical community has for our PHI. Specifically, the easiest thing to point out, as it happens all the time, is the “theft” (or loss) of a portable storage device. For those keeping score, a portable storage device is anything [...]
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Continue ReadingNot really a vacation, they were FIRED. Allina hospital in Minneapolis fired 28 employees who “were found to have violated the federal patient privacy rule known as HIPAA” as reported by the StarTribune paper. “Although they were patient-care providers, none of them were caring for the 11 people hospitalized.” This clarifies it was not accidental [...]
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Continue ReadingAs noted on amednews.com, many doctors are not getting their Medicare quality bonuses due to reporting challenges. What’s this all about? In 2009 over 1 million physicians & health professionals were eligible to report for the Physician Quality Reporting System, also known as PQRI. Apparently only 210,000 participated. Note, this is a voluntary program…for now. [...]
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Continue ReadingAt the most basic level, why any business would want their employees to have access to a time waster is beyond me. Back in “the day”, when windows was young, there was a time waster included (it still is) called solitaire. Time Waster Larger businesses have their IT folks remove solitaire from the computers. Why? [...]
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Continue ReadingData theft of medical records is on the rise and will continue. Why? A few reasons: Medical data contains lots of “goodies” for ID theft It’s not that hard to steal Most medical practices don’t have solid privacy policies in place to follow (HIPAA regulations) Since EHR’s are a growing tool, there is more data [...]
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