3 Steps to Avoid a Healthcare Data Breach
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3 Steps to Avoid a Healthcare Data Breach

How serious is it if your company experiences a data breach? (In the healthcare world, a data breach is when a patient’s name plus their medical record and/or their financial information is unintentionally made available to the public or to criminals.) It’s serious business. A recent report by The Ponemon Institute, a research firm that…

Practice Point: Quality Measures and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)

In last month’s column, Quality Measures and Meaningful Use, we discussed how the Centers for Medicare “ Medicaid Services (CMS) has aligned quality reporting programs, including the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). Collecting this level of documentation for CMS, from a specialty outpatient wound care…