Meaningful Use Risk Assessment.
Achieve compliance with the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program requirements.
extensive security risk analysis & advisory for EHR meaningful use compliance.
GraVoc’s seasoned information security experts can provide extensive Meaningful Use risk assessment and management advisory to help your healthcare organization achieve compliance with the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program requirements.
Through this security risk analysis, our experienced team will identify vulnerabilities in your certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology infrastructure and provide recommendations for an action plan to correct these gaps and maximize protection of your patient health information.
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What is EHR Meaningful Use?
Meaningful use risk assessment components
Meaningful use risk & readiness assessment process
what is EHR meaningful use?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency, runs the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program – previously known as the EHR Incentive Programs – for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs).
The EHR Incentive programs were introduced to encourage eligible healthcare professionals and organizations to implement certified EHR technology. Eventually, these programs were renamed, and the requirements were revamped, to reflect a focus on interoperability and enhancing patient access to health information.
The Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program includes a Security Risk Analysis Measure that requires participating entities to conduct a risk assessment of their certified EHR technology and evaluate the encryption of data to find and close gaps. Entities must then submit a yes/no attestation of completion. They need a ‘yes’ response to show compliance with the measure.
Eligible entities that do not participate in the Program face a downward payment adjustment, which means a drop in Medicare reimbursements.
during your Meaningful Use risk assessment, we review:
HIPAA Privacy Rule
We conduct a review of the standards to protect medical health records, the development and dissemination of the privacy notice, policies for disclosures and implementation of Privacy Rule Administrative requirements.
Breach Notification (HITECH)
We review notification processes for a breach of protected health data, use of encryption and account of PHI disclosures.
Security Rules
- Administrative safeguards: A review of the EHR controls and existing workflows.
- Physical safeguards: An assessment of the certified EHR’s environment and level of physical security in place.
- Technical Safeguards: We evaluate the certified EHR’s technical infrastructure, including access methods, authentication, and authorization to the system. Here, we do a deep dive into your encryption tools and policies, password management, incident detection, user access, and more.
our EHR Meaningful Use security risk & readiness assessment process:
Our certification gap analysis & readiness process for EHR Meaningful Use has three phases:
review phase.
analysis phase.
remediation & readiness phase.
our certifications include:
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