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RIM and IT News
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Written by DocuTech
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Monday, 08 March 2010 11:02 |
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Last week at the HIMSS10 Healthcare IT Conference in Atlanta, an announcement was made proposing the establishment of two certification programs for purposes of testing and certifying health information technology.
David Blumenthal, MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, made the announcement regarding the certification proposal. This is the last in a series of three rules mandated under the HITECH Act, part of last February's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that explain how providers and hospitals can qualify for bonuses for the use of certified healthcare IT.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), unveiled the rules on standards and meaningful use last December. According to the ONC, the rule will allow organizations to apply for temporary or permanent authorization to become certification bodies. The ONC is proposing the temporary certification to speed things up because of the looming deadline.
The proposed rule can be found online here.
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Written by DocuTech
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:18 |
In a recent decision subtitled "Zubulake Revisited: Six Years Later," Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York granted sanctions against 13 plaintiffs—six for gross negligence and seven for negligence—in connection with their failure to preserve, collect, and produce electronic documents, in Pension Committee of the Univ. of Montreal Pension Plan, et al. v. Banc of America Securities, LLC, et al., 2010 WL 184312 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 15, 2010).
Judge Scheindlin built her conclusions upon principles she established in the six often-cited opinions she issued in the Zubulake litigation regarding discovery generally and electronic discovery in particular.
The case did not present any egregious examples of litigants purposefully destroying evidence. Rather, according to the court, "it is a case where plaintiffs failed to timely institute written litigation holds and engaged in careless and indifferent collection efforts after the duty to preserve arose."
The court determined that she would ultimately issue an adverse inference instruction to the jury. The court also imposed significant monetary sanctions on the negligent plaintiffs.
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Courts Ask Jurors to Stop Tweeting |
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Written by DocuTech
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:38 |
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Long held jury instructions will soon be changed to include electronic media.
The model jury instructions the Judicial Conference released to the federal judiciary in late January specify:
"You may not communicate with anyone about the case on your cellphone, through e-mail, Blackberry, iPhone, text messaging, or on Twitter, through any blog or website, through any internet chat room, or by way of any other social networking websites, including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and YouTube."
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation's judges in a Jan. 28 memo that the new jury instructions "address the increasing incidence of juror use, of such devices as cellular telephones or computers, to conduct research on the internet or communicate with others about cases."
See story here.
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Written by Docutech
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 11:16 |
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The Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule with a request for comments to adopt an initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria, as required by the Public Health Service Act.
This step is the first to adopting standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria to enhance the interoperability, functionality, utility, and security of health information technology and to support its meaningful use.
The certification criteria adopted in this initial set establish the capabilities and related standards that certified electronic health record (EHR) technology will need to include in order to, at a minimum, support the achievement of the proposed meaningful use Stage 1 (beginning in 2011) by eligible professionals and eligible hospitals under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
See story.
See rule.
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FTC Fines Man for Dumping Records |
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Written by DocuTech
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Friday, 05 February 2010 12:00 |
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The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement of $35,000 with a Las Vegas real estate broker who dumped 40 boxes of customer tax returns, bank statements, and other financial records in a public dumpster. See story.
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Written by DocuTech
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 16:37 |
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Companies everywhere are discovering that using Software as a Service (SaaS) ECM lowers costs and frees up IT resources for other tasks. See story.
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Data Breach Costs Increase |
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Written by DocuTech
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 10:19 |
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The cost per customer record in a data breach increased $2 over the 2008 average to $204 per customer record compromised in a data breach. The Poneman Institute, which conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, released its fifth annual report declaring that the average cost per compromised customer record rose to $204. The report is sponsored by PGP Corporation. Download Report.
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