Leveraging Funding For EHR While Meeting HIPAA Requirements - Sponsored Whitepaper

By 2015, all healthcare organizations must deploy comprehensive Electronic Health Records (EHR) to be in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted by the U.S. Congress more than a decade ago in an effort to reform healthcare. Title II of HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to standardize the interchange of electronic data for specified administrative and financial transactions in order to protect the security and confidentiality of electronic health information.

Meeting these standards is an uphill battle for most healthcare organizations. Transferring documents to an electronic format is a long and expensive process. While larger enterprises such as hospitals and health systems are leading the switch to EHR, only 13 percent of physicians have implemented EHR systems in their practices.

The greatest challenge with the switch to EHR begins with the network. Organizations must continue to comply