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Extending HIPAA’s Security Rule on Electronic Health Records (EHRs) 26 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
HIPAA and EHRs The Congress of the United States passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, which sets the national standard for electronic transfer of health data...
Obamacare Backfires: Employer Mandate Postponed to 2015 4 Jul 2013 | 04:41 am
Last year Obamacare cleared a big hurdle when the Supreme Court ruled that a healthcare “tax” is constitutional. However, the Affordable Care Act has run into quicksand after the Obama Administration ...
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Concerns Over Electronic Health Records 22 Apr 2013 | 10:14 am
Privacy, confidentiality, and security have always been a concern whenever electronic transmission of patients data are involved The definition of privacy was explicitly explained by Justices of the S...
Automating Medical Records in the 21st Century 9 Mar 2013 | 03:03 pm
The first ever paper medical record was the brainchild of none other than Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C. Accordingly, a medical record must achieved two goals: one, the medical record must be ...
The New Buzzword in Health Care – ACOs. 10 Feb 2013 | 12:57 am
What are ACOs? A new buzzword in health care is ACOs, which is actually an acronym for Accountable Care Organizations. It is one of the pilot programs in the new health care law that is administered ...
Total Quality Management (TQM) in Healthcare 14 Jan 2013 | 02:21 am
Total Quality Management (TQM) Total Quality Management (TQM) may have been the first quality oriented philosophy to transition into healthcare. TQM is based on three principles: continuous quality ...
Shortage of Nurse Aides, Home Health Aides, and Personal-and-Home-Care Aides Projected 3 Jan 2013 | 11:50 am
Nurse aides, home health aides, and personal-and-home-care aides are classified as direct care workers. Direct-care workers are paraprofessionals who are trained to assist the elderly and the disabled...
Does health care rationing exist in the United States? (Cesar Aquino) 23 Dec 2012 | 03:12 am
Does health care rationing exist in the United States? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 or otherwise known as the Obama Care calls it misinformation, maintaining explicitly in the statute that “T...
Increasing Demand for Healthcare Workers (Cesar Aquino) 20 Dec 2012 | 11:28 am
Is there really a job shortage for healthcare professionals? Experts agree that there is a real shortage of healthcare workers in the United States, although there are some who believed that it is jus...
Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Obamacare (NYTimes) 30 Jul 2012 | 02:11 am
“President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there...
