HIT Consultant December 12, 2022
As healthcare continues to digitally transform, integrating health data among various IT stakeholders demands much more collaboration than our predecessors could have imagined. Once focused intensely on preventing fraud, waste, and abuse and ensuring high-quality patient care, the compliance department is tasked with maintaining programs that meet the regulations and laws of numerous government bodies pertaining to various areas, especially electronic protected health information (ePHI). Similarly, while the health information management (HIM) department and privacy officers were once knee-deep in paperwork, they’ve transitioned efforts to the privacy of electronic data, including addressing right-to-access requests and concerns. Security officers safeguard, protect, and monitor this information, in addition to other data and systems.
Likewise, IT departments were once charged with the basic...