Are your passwords HIPAA secure?

Standard advice for securing computer systems is to require users to change passwords frequently. Something about this recommendation has always bothered me, but I never really thought it through. A current blog posting at Healthcare Informatics by Dale Sanders really hits the nail on the head. He points out that these change-passwords-frequently policies actually undercut password security [...]

Posted Under: Behavioral healthcare,EHR,EMR,Practice management
This post was written by Seth on February 23, 2009 Comments (4)

Mental Health Billing and the ICD-10

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 [...]

Posted Under: Behavioral healthcare,General healthcare
This post was written by Kathy on October 31, 2008 Comments (9)