Data Security, Backup, and the HITECH Law

A question on one of the psychology listservs I follow got me thinking, yet again, about data security…and backup. The writer asked about the proper procedures to follow when patient psychotherapy treatment records are permanently lost. The question pertained to how the counselor in question should respond to the loss of all of their patient [...]

Posted Under: Behavioral healthcare,General healthcare,Practice management
This post was written by Kathy on June 3, 2009 Comments (1)

The Indispensible Data Backup

We were recently told by the IT person for an organization that had six weeks earlier lost all their data, that backing up was not a priority. Yes, they were having the same problem again. No, they did not have a good backup. They had needed to get up and running again and that took [...]

Posted Under: Practice management,The technical world
This post was written by Kathy on November 19, 2008 Comments (6)