Although the legislation may seem daunting, it creates a winning scenario for everyone. The resulting standardization aims to significantly reduce administrative costs and not at the expense of quality of care. Currently, there is no common standard for the transfer of information between the constituents in healthcare. This has resulted in providers having to conform to each standard employed by every payer with which they interact. For some providers, this number can be in the hundreds and can lead to exorbitant administrative expense.
Payers face monetary fines for non-compliance.
There is no recognized healthcare standard that includes all the necessary components to protect the data integrity and confidentiality of a patient's personal health record. Information about the proposed security standard was published in early August in the Federal Register, pages 43249-43258. According to QuadraMed experts, a healthcare organization would be wise to identify an implementation team to work on the standard by dividing its focus among the four categories of proposed security requirements. Administrative procedures used to guard data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. These are documented, formal procedures for selecting and executing information security measures.