Category: Technology

All security experts concur on this one fact: in the face of unethical hackers crawling the Internet for targets, only encryption can win.

Worried about hackers from faraway countries breaking into your medical practice’s computer systems? The risk may be a lot closer to home. In fact, the risk may even be in your office.

Identification and authentication comes in the form of passwords, user IDs, biometric keys, and so on. These form the ultimate line of defense between authorized and unauthorized access to patient EHR data. So how can these credentialing protocols help boost your practice security?

The main expenses involved in transitioning to and operating under ICD-10 regulations can be summarized under the following three categories: ICD-10 compliant EHR, training requirements, and ICD-10 processing expenses.

For all the lamenting going on about ICD-10, there are actually a number of ways it is better than ICD-9, in fact in some cases by leaps and bounds.

The ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation deadline for everyone covered by HIPAA is set for October 1, 2015 and it is expected that all HIPAA-covered entities will have completed the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS by this date.