Archive for January, 2010

Accel­er­at­ing the Use of Elec­tronic Health Records in Physi­cian Prac­tices
http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=2839
Posted by NEJM • Jan­u­ary 20th, 2010 • Printer-friendly
Steven Shea, M.D., and George Hripc­sak, M.D.
North Shore Hos­pi­tal Sys­tem on Long Island in New York recently announced that it will pay an incen­tive of up to $40,000 to each physi­cian in its network […]

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Main­te­nance and reten­tion of elec­tronic records

Writ­ten by Atty. Deo D. Salu­dario / Tax Law for Business

Wednes­day, 20 Jan­u­ary 2010 20:52

With the ever-changing tech­nol­ogy that has become a major con­sid­er­a­tion in doing busi­ness, the Bureau of Inter­nal Rev­enue (BIR) recently issued Rev­enue Reg­u­la­tion (RR) 09–2009, dated Decem­ber 23, 2009, for the main­te­nance, reten­tion and sub­mis­sion of […]

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Unse­cured files next to a park­ing garage stair­case | Photo by the Los Ange­les Police Pro­tec­tive League
Remem­ber last Octo­ber when the LAPD’s union busted the depart­ment for stor­ing con­fi­den­tial files in com­mon spaces like hall­ways and park­ing garages with no secu­rity (see pho­tos here)? Doc­u­ments with social secu­rity num­bers, ser­ial num­bers, search warrants, […]

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Jan­u­ary 7, 2010 Cen­tric ECM Leave a com­ment Go to comments

Lawyers pro­vid­ing an online file stor­age and retrieval sys­tem for client access of doc­u­ments must take rea­son­able pre­cau­tions to pro­tect the secu­rity and con­fi­den­tial­ity of client doc­u­ments and infor­ma­tion. Lawyers should be aware of lim­i­ta­tions in their com­pe­tence regard­ing online secu­rity mea­sures and take appropriate […]

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