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)

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)