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Handling Security Breaches Under HIPAA: a Legal Perspective
Author: Gradle, Brian D.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: August 02, 2003
If you were to ask health information managers for a one-word response to HIPAA, the majority of the replies would likely be “privacy.”However, simply because the compliance date for the final security rule (which was published by the government in February and applies to electronic informati....
Privacy's Day in Court
Author: Gradle, Brian D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2002
While HIM professionals work to implement HIPAA, courts across the nation continue to hear cases that could affect this work. Namely, these are cases related to state privacy laws.
HIPAA's "preemption" framework provides that state laws that are not contrary to HIPAA or that p....