by David Harlow | Feb 1, 2013
After years of delay, the federales finally finalized the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement Rules. Introduction The Final Rule offers significant changes to patient rights and patient protections. (There is much more to the rule, but other...
by Ileana Balcu | Jan 24, 2013
The latest buzzword in the Healthcare IT (HIT) world is “patient-centric”. It seems that everyone’s device/software/solution is designed to be patient-centric. On the Society for Participatory Medicine’s internal listserv we discussed what does it take for an HIT...
by Susan Woods | Jan 21, 2013
This weekend is momentous not only for the 2nd inauguration of the President. History will say the Veterans Health Administration is innovative, truly patient centered and even a bit risky. Today, VA patients can view, print and download ALL their health record data...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2013
On Twitter @HCI_GPerna just posted that the Dept of Health & Human Services has announced the long-awaited rule changes to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. These are the changes to implement HITECH, the 2009 stimulus bill...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2012
Most of our readers are familiar with the brief animated video introduced last summer by ONC, the health IT group in the US government. (If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it below, in long and short versions.) Now they’ve introduced a new poster (click...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 16, 2012
I haven’t blogged about it much this year due to the pressures of my own work, but I’m seriously impressed with the relevance, quality and user-friendliness of the work being done by the folks at ONC (the health IT branch of the department of Health &...
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