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Software Firm Protests Upgrade Contract for UI’s Chicago Med School
Cerner is protesting a contract awarded to rival software firm Epic for an EHR upgrade at the University of Illinois medical center in Chicago, reports The News-Gazette.
Lawsuit Claims eClinicalWorks Failed to Meet Meaningful Use Guarantees
Primary care providers filed a class-action lawsuit claiming eClinicalWorks’ software didn’t live up to the vendor’s promises of compliance with EHR certification criteria, reports FierceHealthcare. |
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Compliancy Group Launches HIPAA Alliance Marketplace
Compliancy Group is launching the HIPAA Alliance Marketplace, a closed ecosystem that allows health care professionals (covered entities) to find HIPAA-compliant solution providers (business associates). HIPAA-compliant vendors in the HIPAA Alliance Marketplace are heavily vetted against the HIPAA rules and verified by the Compliancy Group HIPAA Seal of Compliance. Health care professionals looking for vendors and service providers can search for solutions by type and/or geography. Vendors in the HIPAA Alliance Marketplace include a wide variety of specialties and services including HIPAA compliance, IT and managed service providers, encryption, EHRs, medical billing and collections, applications and software, hosting, business insurance, patient engagement, printing and mailing, and practice management. The HIPAA Alliance Marketplace features free, open enrollment for covered entities and health care professionals. The Marketplace gives health care providers the tools to simplify their search for HIPAA-compliant vendors and confidently satisfy HIPAA law to keep their data safe from data breaches and ransomware. Learn more »
Wolters Kluwer Adds Application for ComplyTrack
Wolters Kluwer is launching Audit Management on its ComplyTrack platform. Designed with the needs of health care compliance professionals in mind, Audit Management provides a single-source solution to revolutionize the audit process, giving health care providers complete control over the audit lifecycle. As a secure, web-based solution, Audit Management supports organizations of any size or geographic distribution, with automated workflows to respond both proactively and retroactively to auditors while simultaneously managing multiple rounds of appeals. By offering insight into every facet of the claims-based audit process, the solution ensures consistent, timely handling of audits, saving time and money, and minimizing ongoing financial risk. ComplyTrack Audit Management enables reimbursement professionals to track both Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) and non-RAC audits from start to finish, without investing in additional staff; identify denial trends, quantifying appeal outcomes and quickly projecting audit losses to ensure reserve funds are properly allocated; detect, analyze, report on, and predict trends using powerful embedded IBM Cognos reporting; and automate claims import processing, eliminating the need for manual claims data entry. Learn more » |
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Survey: 84% of Health Care Organizations Lack a Cybersecurity Leader
A recent survey conducted by Black Book Research indicated the majority of health care provider and payer organizations are not taking cybersecurity seriously enough. Responses included 323 strategic decision makers from the United States.
Black Book recently announced key findings from a 2017 survey that found that more than eight in 10 provider organizations lack a reliable enterprise leader for cybersecurity, while only 11% plan to get a cybersecurity officer in 2018. When it comes to payers, 31% have an established manager for cybersecurity programs currently, with 44% planning to recruit a candidate in the new year.
Black Book revealed that the health care industry continues to underestimate security threats as attackers continue to seek data and monetary gain. “The low security posture of most health care organizations may prove a target demographic for which these attacks are successful,” says Doug Brown, managing partner of Black Book.
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