George Atis, Chairman, Outsourcing and Technology practice groups, McMillan Binch LLP
Toronto outsourcing attorney George Atis lists six items U.S. attorneys must consider if their American clients are working in Canada. Cross-border outsourcing transactions are more difficult than they look.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Hospitals looking for a service provider for HIPAA compliance should select one who has actual translation and mapping experience. The process is too complicated to outsource to a provider just learning the ropes.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Word of mouth in the healthcare industry has spread the message: outsourcing is the best medicine to address costs and government regulations.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Serious legal consequences can result from employees’ lack of awareness of new procedures for privacy and security issues due to HIPAA. But implementing the policies and educating employees is costly and requires expertise. One outsourcer, however, has a unique, low-cost, highly effective solution that you need to know about.
Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer
Outsourcing patient data must satisfy a hospital’s stringent security requirements. One ASP has developed a prescription for protecting patient data on the Web.
Rebecca S. Eisner, Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
New U.S. laws have made privacy and data security a risky business. Be scared. Be very scared. Here’s why.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
April 2002. The impending deadline now shaping the future of privacy and security of patient information in the healthcare industry finds some organizations facing formidable challenges, for they must soon comply with the initial guidelines and standards set forth in the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The new security rules are not yet final, but healthcare organizations are turning quickly to service providers for solutions to protect the confidentiality of patient data.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
From the moment of his 1999 signature approving two-thirds of the proposed HIPAA regulations, President Clinton tossed the healthcare industry a hot potato. So now the industry is forced to start changing the way it was doing business.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Behind closed doors, discussions about the biggest challenge for both providers and payers in the healthcare industry are not about HIPAA compliance. It’s about how to be profitable. Given the numerous industry problems besetting companies, revenue has been drastically cut, and most have lost millions of dollars for several years in a row. The solution, as many are discovering, is for organizations to become more efficient. And the only way to accomplish that objective is to outsource non-core business processes and take advantage of outsourcers’ expertise and technological resources.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Born in August 1999, TrustData Solutions Corporation has already matured enough to take giant steps in the eSecurity arena. HIPAA experts agree TrustData’s solutions are probably the most advanced technology today for allowing companies to enable HIPAA compliance.
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