Category «E-Records»

HHS Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information

Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) Privacy Rule “This page provides guidance about methods and approaches to achieve de-identification in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The guidance explains and answers questions regarding the …

Subjects: E-Records, Legislation, Privacy

HHS OIG – Early Assessment Finds CMS Faces Obstacles in Overseeing Medicare EHR Incentive Program

HHS OIG – Early Assessment Finds CMS Faces Obstacles in Overseeing the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. Daniel R. Levinson Inspector General November 2012 “This study is an early assessment of CMSs oversight of the Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, for which CMS estimates it will pay $6.6 billion in incentive payments between 2011 …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents

OIG – SECs Records Management Practices

SECs Records Management Practices, September 30, 2012. Report No. 505 “SECs records include confidential treatment requests files, correspondence, investigation records, matters under inquiry records, transcripts, working papers, consumer complaint files, Congressional and Chairman files, administrative proceedings files, self-regulatory files, bankruptcy files, effective orders, etc. On November 28, 2011, a presidential memorandum was issued on managing …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents

New GAO Reports – Chief Acquisition Officers, Combating Nuclear Smuggling, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Electronic Health Records

Chief Acquisition Officers – Appointments Generally Conform to Legislative Requirements, but Agencies Need to Clearly Define Roles and Responsibilities, GAO-12-792, July 26, 2012 Combating Nuclear Smuggling – DHS has Developed Plans for Its Global Nuclear Detection Architecture, but Challenges Remain in Deploying Equipment, GAO-12-941T, July 26, 2012 Critical Infrastructure Protection – DHS Is Taking Action …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents

Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality and Efficiency: The Experiences of Leading Hospitals

S. Silow-Carroll, J. N. Edwards, and D. Rodin, Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality and Efficiency: The Experiences of Leading Hospitals, The Commonwealth Fund, July 2012 “An examination of nine hospitals that recently implemented a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system finds that clinical and administrative leaders built EHR adoption into their strategic plans …

Subjects: E-Records

Microsoft Launches the new Office

News release: “Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available at office.com/preview. The next release features an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social and unlocks modern scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings …

Subjects: E-Records

New GAO Reports – Information Technology Reform , Ryan White Care Act

Information Technology Reform – Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned, GAO-12-756, Jul 11, 2012: “As part of a comprehensive effort to increase the operational efficiency of federal technology assets, federal agencies are shifting how they deploy IT services. OMB issued a Cloud First policy in December 2010 that requires federal …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Internet

EPIC: Law Enforcement Requests to Wireless Carriers Topped 1.3 Million in 2011

“In response to recent letters from Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), nine mobile wireless carriers have provided detailed reports of law enforcement requests for user cell phone records. These requests come from agencies – across all levels of government – seeking text messages, caller locations, and other information in the course of investigations. The reports show …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges

Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition. Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, and Elizabeth C. Wiggins. Federal Judicial Center, 2012 “ESI currently includes e-mail messages, word processing files, web pages, and databases created and stored on computers, magnetic disks (such as computer hard drives), optical disks (such as DVDs …

Subjects: Courts, E-Mail, E-Records, Legal Research

Privacy and Security Framework Requirements and Guidance for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program

HHS, March 22, 2012 – “The National Quality Strategy sets three aims for improving health care in our country: better care, affordable care, and healthy people and communities. Information that is accurate, up to date, and available when and where a patient seeks care is the lifeblood of health care improvement and crucial to reaching …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Privacy

CDT – Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data

Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data, March 22, 2012 “As the digitization of health records makes it easier and more cost effective to share and analyze health data, policymakers and businesses are increasingly looking to use health data for secondary purposes uses beyond that for which the health data were originally collected. For example, …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Privacy

Report: Much work still needed to achieve widespread use of computerized patient records

Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT Bipartisan Policy, Center Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT, January 2012 “Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health cares triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for …

Subjects: E-Records

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