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Recent EHR News
By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS
“Cerber ransomware decryption tool was available for 1 day before hackers rendered it useless – The authors of Cerber fixed the flaw in the ransomware’s code that made decryption possible.” By India Ashok for International Business Times, August 18, 2016.
“HIPAA Breach Case Results in Record $5.5 Million Penalty.” By Aldrin Brown for MSP Mentor, August 18, 2016.
http://mspmentor.net/msp-mentor/hipaa-breach-case-results-record-55-million-penalty
“HIT Costs Rose 40% Per Physician Since 2009.” By Christine Kern, contributing writer, Health IT Outcomes, August 19, 2016.
http://www.healthitoutcomes.com/doc/hit-costs-rose-per-physician-since-0001
Kern: “Healthcare organizations are facing serious financial challenges as they are forced to convert their practices and patient records to digital formats.”
“Office for Civil Rights to Increase Investigations of Smaller HIPAA Breaches.” By National Law Review, August 19, 2016
NLR: “HHS Office for Civil Rights will cast a wider net and increase its investigations into smaller HIPAA privacy breaches starting this month. OCR announced a new initiative to increase its efforts examining breaches that affect fewer than 500 individuals. OCR Regional Offices already investigate every reported breach affecting 500 or more individuals, and will continue to do so, but now they will intensify efforts to scrutinize smaller breaches.”
“2016 is the year to Go Paperless’ – Stop putting it off, going paperless can save you tens of thousands of dollars.” By Larry Emmott for Emmott on Technology, August 19, 2016.
http://emmottontechnology.com/
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