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Submit Data to Registry Clearinghouse
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Submit Data to Registry Clearinghouse

by Michael Brody, DPM, CEO Registry Clearinghouse

There are four different methods to submit your data to Registry Clearinghouse; manual entry, spreadsheets, submit through billing company or directly through EHR. These four methods are detailed.
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Quality Measures that Have Changed that Might Impact your Practice
MIPS

Quality Measures that Have Changed that Might Impact your Practice

by Michael Brody, DPM, CEO Registry Clearinghouse

For 2024, there are 11 new measures and 9 measures that have been retired.
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HIPAA

Work From Home: Network Security

by Tahlia Brody, VP Client Services at TLD Systems

Understand the implications working from home or remote access has on maintaining HIPAA compliance in the office.
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HIPAA

A Real-Life Ransomware Attack: What to Do if Your EHR System Goes Down

by Michael L. Brody, DPM

On April 27th, an EHR system company sent an email to hosted customers detailing a ransomware incident. According to the email, "A sophisticated criminal organization carried out a ransomware attack on some of the hosting vendor’s systems, disaster recovery site, and backups." As a result of this outage, many customers lost access to their EHR system.
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HIPAA

Even Governments can be fined for HIPAA Violations

by Dr. Michael Brody, DPM, CEO TLD Systems

New Haven, Connecticut failed to terminate an employee’s access to their Health Records System after the employee left. The former employee may have accessed a file containing the Protected Health Information of only 498 Patients.
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HIPAA

Understanding the HIPAA Right of Access Rule

by Dr. Michael Brody, DPM, CEO TLD Systems

When we discuss HIPAA most of the articles have been on security and breaches, but HIPAA goes well beyond privacy and Security.  One aspect of the HIPAA rule is the “Right of Access”.   OCR (The Office for Civil Rights – the branch of HHS the enforces HIPAA) is enforcing this law even more strongly since the 21 Century Cures Act was published.  OCR has begun to levy fines against organizations that are in violation of the “Right of Access” rule.
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HIPAA

Information Blocking and the 21st Century Cures Act

by Dr. Michael Brody, DPM, CEO TLD Systems

Under the new law known as the 21st Century Cures Act, information blocking is now ILLEGAL. That means if you get a request from another provider for patient information, you are required to provide that information. The Office of Inspector General at OIG can investigate all claims of information blocking by providers and can levy fines and / or enforce Corrective Action Plans (CAP).
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