Reblog: Going Beyond HIPAA: 5 HIPAA-Related Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a very complicated compliance standard to tackle. There are strict privacy requirements surrounding the handling of patient medical and personally identifiable information, but how these requirements are met is left largely up to the individual healthcare organizations. Add HIPAA’s requirements for portability and accessibility to the…

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Reblog: Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Embraces Digitisation

Medical Records are now easier to retrieve for patients and doctors due to digital entry and filing of documents The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has started digitising its records and has instituted a modern system of physical filing of records for the first time since digitisation came of age and years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

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Video: Millions of Medical Records lost in fire

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL7RQzBUMrM[/youtube] UNM hospitals based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA lost medical records of 1 Lakh patients due to a fire in a warehouse complex. This was the warehouse where they had stored the records. This only goes to show how vulnerable hospitals are to such losses in the absence of a proper records management solution. Get…

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Medrecon 2011 – Hyderabad

We participated in the recently held Medrecon 2011 conference in Hyderabad. This is an annual national conference on Medical Records. With a view to increase our reach in the Indian market particularly for the Medical records department in the India’s leading hospitals, along with our technology partner e-bizindia participated in the event organized by Kamineni…

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