Chris Apgar, CISSP, consults on information security to the healthcare and financial services industries. He offers this overview of the Federal Trade Commission’s red flag rules [...]

The clarifications continue over CMS’s approach to signature stamps. This past July CMS issued a clarification that stamps were not permissable on any medical record. Now [...]

Healthcare is badly in need of some cost-savings. A new study suggests that a change in the way we keep health records could save billions. Last week [...]

“HIM and health IT are finding that the scope and responsibilities of individual job functions are increasingly crossing department domains,” write the authors of the practice [...]

The November-December issue examines the workflow processes for organizations with hybrid records, or those with both paper and electronic health records. Other features report on planning [...]