Category Archives: HIPPA

Will that be Paper or Panic?

June 9, 2009 – 11:08 pm

According to the New  York Times, 8/10 doctors still use paper record keeping.  As I stated in an earlier blog, the stimulus package will spend a “ga-jillion” dollars on converting paper records to electronic medical records.   Techworld.com cited in an article in 2007 that “a key tenet of HIPAA’s data privacy and security requirements is [...]

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Electronic Stimulus

June 1, 2009 – 12:29 am

According to the Baltimore Sun, President Obama has promised to spend $50 billion dollars over the next five years coax hospitals, medical centers and the like to begin the process of offering electronic data.  So nurses, occupational therapist and other allied health personnel as well as Doctors may be carrying something like a Kindle around instead [...]

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