AKIBIA'S PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Entries with Label: HIPAA
Health Providers Beware of the New HITECH Act
Friday, June 18, 2010
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or more commonly known as the HITECH Act, is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This act appears to put some teeth into the HIPAA regulation of 1996. The HITECH Act wants to provide some general and specific incentives for companies to adopt the electronic health record (EHR) systems for health organizations. With these incentives also comes greater increased privacy and security protections for consumers and potential increased liability for those that are not in compliance.
Too Many Requirements; How One VP of IT Handles It
Thursday, September 30, 2010
In 1996 IT departments were only concerned with two mandates, but today there are over 200 and more than 2500 security controls associated with them. The cost, both in budget and time, associated with understanding, addressing and proving compliance with these ever expanding mandates is considerable. Because requirements expand and change on a regular basis, the project of managing compliance is never complete, leaving CIOs and their IT departments constantly at risk of non-compliance.
