by MRO Privacy | May 1, 2021 | Feature Articles
Covered entities (CEs) that have flirted with the 30-day mark for response time with patient requests for access to or copies of their protected health information (PHI) should take notice: they may need to get better. Two times better, that is. The Department of...
by admin-ten22 | Apr 15, 2021 | Podcast
HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Rita Bowen on HIPAA Privacy Rule
by MRO Privacy | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog
Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting HIPAA Gets a Facelift: Are There Still Wrinkles with my colleague Angela Rose. During this webinar, we outlined the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which was published in the...
by Stephen Hynes, President, Provider Solutions | Mar 17, 2021 | Feature Articles
When the impact of the pandemic upended the status quo in March 2020, health systems and organizations needed to completely change their operations and adopt a remote environment almost overnight. As a result, release of information (ROI) had to move employees out of...
by MRO Privacy | Mar 10, 2021 | Blog
Recently I presented Patient Access: Road to Compliance as part of the 2021 webinars hosted monthly by release of information specialist, MRO, this year. During the presentation, attendees learned about the latest Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcements and...
by Nicole Hoy, Senior Brand Manager | Mar 10, 2021 | Press Release
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – March 10, 2021 – MRO Corp. (MRO), a leading clinical data workflow platform and the KLAS-rated No. 1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions, announced today the acquisition of Northbrook, IL-based Cobius Healthcare Solutions (Cobius), a...
by MRO Privacy | Mar 9, 2021 | Feature Articles
Proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule could weaken patient data privacy protections, say Rita Bowen and Zachary Perry of the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services. A notice of proposed rulemaking from the Department of Health and Human Services...
by Angela Rose, MHA, RHIA, CHPS, FAHIMA | Mar 3, 2021 | Feature Articles
More than a year since the outbreak of COVID-19, virtual walk-up windows for patient and family record requests have become the new normal. Fifty percent of traditional health information management (HIM) departments’ traditional walk-up windows remain closed. As HIM...
by Diana Warner, MS, RHIA, CHPS, CPHI, FAHIMA | Feb 25, 2021 | Feature Articles
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT’s information blocking final rule, part of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), goes into effect April 5, 2021. At a high level, the final rule prohibits health providers, technology vendors, health...
by Don Hardwick, Senior Vice President, Client Relations | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
MRO is proud to begin the 2021 calendar year with two recent awards received for our commitment to superior customer experience. For the eighth year in a row, MRO is KLAS-rated #1 for Release of Information (ROI) services. Additionally, for the fifth year in a row,...
