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I was talking to a Doctor and friend of mine today and a question came up
about teleconferencing, and meeting compliance while doing so.

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You know how some people think of bad things and say “that won’t happen to me…”

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Every field has a bully. Someone or some company that tells you what to do when to do.. or else…

For the health care providers, this is what Meaningful Use is.

Let’s start with what Meaningful Use is…” a qualification to receive federal funding for health information technology, specifically, the use of electronic health records.”

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Your patient’s health information is the most important asset of your business. Keeping it protect is more important than ever.The following strategy will help you meet compliance.

The HITECH legislation is Title XIII of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment act, and can be found beginning on page 112 in the official document at:http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr1enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr1enr.pdf

See also: the HIPAA Security rule and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

In summary of David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA’s article

1. Understand why computer security is important.

If you need a simple answer to the question, “Why is computer security necessary and important?” the answer is “because everyone cares about the privacy and integrity of their health information.” The point of computer security is to prevent personal health information from falling into the wrong hands or being accidentally changed or destroyed.
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If you’re a business owner(regardless of where you are located) and your company has personal data for Mass. residents who are your EMPLOYEES or CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS then this law pertains to you.

As Jaikumar Vijayan wrote in his ComputerWorld article - available here - next week (March 1st) is the deadline for companies to “ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers and other third parties comply with a provision of a state data breach law that went into effect in March 2010″

The law MA 201 CMR 17.00 (download PDF) is a set of guidelines that businesses in MA need to follow in order to avoid fines, penalties or even being shut down.

You’re probably wondering: “well I’m not an IT guru so what am I supposed to do?”

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• edson posted on February 28, 2012
  Awesome!! Glad I could help :)
• Desiree posted on February 28, 2012
  I'm at my job and my office manager printed this up and said thank you for the information!