All health care specialists are governed by a number of laws and some of those laws require HIPAA training to be undertaken. It has been made mandatory for health care professionals and experts in other related fields, to be trained in all the rules and policies outlined under this act. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) This act was introduced in 1996 but it came into for Read More...
In the Ghostbusters universe The Proton Pack is a man-portable particle accelerator system that is used to create a charged particle beam - composed of protons - that is fired by the proton gun (also referred to as the "neutrona wand"). It is described in the first movie as a "positron collider", and presumably functions by colliding high-energy positrons to generate its proton beam. The positive Read More...
Meaningful Use As we've previously written, during the last week of December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced a proposed rule to define "meaningful use." At the time, CMS identified three proposed stages of meaningful use criteria as follows: a. Stage 1 focuses on the electro Read More...
HIPAA and Privacy Rules The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 transformed the way that healthcare providers manage patients' personal information. HIPAA has not only set the ground rules for sharing patient records between clinics and insurance companies, it has also created a vast new standard for ensuring the privacy of personal medical information. The privac Read More...