Back in August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a proposed rule requiring the implementation of the portion of HIPAA that mandates use of the ICD-10 by October 2011. The International Classification of Diseases-10 was endorsed by the 43rd World Health Assembly in 1990 and was implemented by many World Health [...]
New guidance about communicating with a patient’s family, friends or caretakers was released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights. This is the office entrusted with education about and enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. They have created two documents which [...]
Based on discussion on the SOS User Forum and comments on our first blog entry, the passage of parity of mental health services with those in the general health arena is a pressing issue for our users. In fact, this is a landmark event in the entire behavioral health community. There is considerable discussion in the newsletter world and [...]
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For the past couple of months we here at SOS Software have been toying with the idea of starting a blog. Stepping into the blogosphere is intimidating to me. As our customers know, Synergistic Office Solutions is a small company providing medical and mental health practice management software and mental health clinical records. Our staff range [...]
