HITECH Act: What you need to know about new data-breach guidelines

Healthcare providers and others handling sensitive patient data are now finding the stakes raised if they suffer a data breach because of a new law known as the “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act,” or HITECH Act. Passed by Congress in February, the HITECH Act is now coming into enforcement by the U.S. Depart…

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HITECH Act: What you need to know about new data-breach guidelines

Stolen laptop contained names, addresses, insurance numbers, dates of birth and bank account details

Northern Ireland Department Human Resources data loss incident circa 2009-06-01

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Stolen laptop contained names, addresses, insurance numbers, dates of birth and bank account details

VCE session to advise on clinical decision support implementation

Clinical decision support (CDS) is one of the most important vehicles, not only for qualifying for the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) but also for using electronic health records to improve care, said Jonathan Teich, MD, CMIO for Elsevier. In his HIMSS