Latest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Stories
Secure messaging platform connects nurses and doctors for better patient care Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) March 07, 2013 docBeat®, a new company offering easy-to-use,secure messaging for healthcare, announced its commercial launch at HIMSS 13 this week. docBeat® is a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based solution which offers healthcare professionals a simple, streamlined way to reach each other. docBeat® helps doctors and nurses stay in synch with its onetouch connect system leading to...
HIPAA-secure texting app 'Doc Halo' reports record numbers of users have registered for the secure healthcare communications mobile app in the first quarter of 2013 with 100% of trial users registering for the compliant communications texting app. The demand for registrations of the secure texting app by physicians and complete healthcare networks has been evidenced again at the Doc Halo booth #8552 during the first days of the HIMSS 2013 Conference in New Orleans this week....
New OCR-Compliant HIPAA One Security Risk Analysis solution runs on powerful, secure ContractPal Cloud Platform. Lindon, UT (PRWEB) March 05, 2013 With the long-anticipated final HIPAA Omnibus rule announced on January 23rd by Health and Human Services, HIPAA and HITECH have become critical. For busy clinics and hospitals, securing patient data in an updated EMR system can be a tenuous task that gets more complex to address every year. Having a single platform capture, report on and help...
NORWALK, Conn., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica US announces that the federal government has stepped up enforcement of healthcare privacy laws, creating difficulties for small and mid-sized medical practices that are trying to keep up with the regulations, according to Physicians Practice, America's Leading Business Journal for Physicians. Laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) are designed to protect the privacy of patient...
Consumers to be Aware of Ten Tips when Applying for Personal Policies Park City, Utah (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 Today, Zane Benefits, Inc. published new information on applying for individual health insurance. Zane Benefits, which provides comprehensive and flexible alternatives to traditional employer sponsored health benefits, is the leader in defined contribution and health reimbursement arrangements. According to Zane Benefits’ website, consumers need to know 10 things when applying...
Integratechs Prepares Businesses for Ramped-Up PCI-DSS & HIPAA Act AMERICAN FORK, Utah, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Utah-based IT outsourcing company Integratechs added PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Digital Security Standard) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance to its list of IT services on February 1, 2013. With recent changes to these standards and increased enforcement trickling down to solo practitioners and small businesses,...
Microsoft Office 365's cloud-based communication, collaboration, and HIPAA privacy and security capabilities win over customers across the healthcare industry. REDMOND, Wash., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that healthcare organizations large and small, including FHI 360, Gwinnett Hospital System Inc., Kindred Healthcare Inc. and Mihills Webb, have selected Microsoft Office 365 as the trusted cloud service to help address their end goal of providing the...
Understanding security compliance can be especially important for legal firms that represent banks, defense contractors and other financial institutes that are regulated by the PCI Security Standards Council and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Data security will continue to remain a major focus for corporate IT risk management. Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 28, 2013 Recent increases in privacy breaches, fraudulent activities, and other malicious ‘hacking’ have served to intensify internal...
Health Alliance to utilize solutions to provide health insurance services to nearly 300,000 members in Illinois and Iowa RESTON, Va., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- hCentive, the leader in ACA healthcare exchange technology, announced today a licensing agreement with Health Alliance Medical Plans (Health Alliance), a leading provider-sponsored insurer in the Midwest, for the company's WebInsure Private Exchange and WebInsure Exchange Manager. WebInsure Private Exchange is an...
As a first-time HIMSS13 exhibitor, OnRamp looks forward to demonstrating its highly flexible data center services which help customers protect their e-PHI. AUSTIN, TX (PRWEB) February 26, 2013 New Orleans welcomes the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, March 3-7, 2013, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. More than 37,000 healthcare industry professionals are expected to attend to discuss health information technology issues and view innovative solutions designed to...
