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tor for Health Information Technology (ONC) oversees compliance with the meaningful use incentive program and offers a tool to help practices comply with the security risk analysis. The tool is an Excel spreadsheet that can be ac- cessed online,
www.texmed.org/Tem plate.aspx?id=25672. It contains in- structions as well as forms physicians or designated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) officers can fill in.
The purpose of a risk assessment is to identify conditions where electronic protected health information could be disclosed without proper authorization, improperly modified, or made unavail- able when needed. This information is the basis of risk management decisions on the reasonable and appropriate safe- guards needed to reduce risk to an ac- ceptable level. This tool provides help- ful information but does not guarantee HIPAA or meaningful use compliance. The practice must ensure it follows ap- propriate policies and procedures and adheres to rule requirements. The Texas Medical Association rec- ognizes the complexities of compliance with the federal EHR incentive program and encourages physicians to contact their local regional extension center (REC), which ONC established to help with program compliance. The RECs can help all physicians, but they may be able to discount services for primary care physicians. Details about the REC program are available on TMA’s Regional Extension Center Resource Center, www
.texmed.org/REC. For more information, call the TMA Health Information Technology Depart- ment at (800) 880-5720, or email HIT@
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Crystal Conde is an associate editor of Texas Medicine. You can reach her by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1385, or (512) 370-1385; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at
crystal.conde@
texmed.org.
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