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AHIMA Comments to the Office of Civil Rights on the Interim Final Rule HITECH Enforcement Provisions and HIPAA
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: December 29, 2009
Patient Identity Integrity
Author: HIMSS Patient Identity Integrity Work Group
Source: External web site
Publication Date: December 02, 2009
Industry standards, interfaces, algorithms, unique identifiers, business processes, data accuracy, data quality, training, and medical devices are variables that influence the ability to build and sustain a database in a high state of identity integrity.
Dispute Resolution: Planning for Disputed Information in EHRS and PHRS
Author: Washington, Lydia; Katsh, Ethan; Sondheimer, Norman
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2009
Healthcare providers receive relatively few patient requests to correct or change information in their records. In part, that has been because patients had poor access to their information. EHRs, PHRs, and private and public initiatives may change all that. Is healthcare ready?
A per....
AHIMA Comments on the Office of Civil Rights' interim final rulemaking (IFR) on “Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information”
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: October 21, 2009
HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
Author: U.S. Office for Civil Rights
Source: Government (U.S.) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Publication Date: October 07, 2009
Accounting of Disclosures: ARRA’s Impact
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
The accounting of disclosures requirement is one of the most difficult HIPAA privacy rule compliance issues to implement. Following the August 2002 modifications to the privacy rule requirements, the accounting for disclosures requirement has stood out as the HIPAA requirement demanding the big....
Integrating ARRA: Leveraging Current Compliance Efforts to Meet the New Privacy Provisions
Author: Nunn, Sandra L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2009
Within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the section known as the HITECH Act provides a combination of incentives and penalties to reduce healthcare costs by automating healthcare records and streamlining health IT. It also broadens the definition of what healthcare information must....
Reassessing Privacy and Security Compliance: ARRA Provisions Require Organizations Re-examine Procedures and Training
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2009
Training and Retraining Needed
The addition of new federal privacy and security provisions does not relieve covered entities of their ongoing HIPAA training requirements. Entities must continue to provide HIPAA training to “employees, volunteers, trainees, and other perso....
California’s Privacy Pileup
: New State Laws Meet Even Newer Federal Regulations
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2009
In California, teasing apart state and federal breach notification laws highlights the challenges organizations everywhere face in determining their responsibilities under ARRA’s new privacy regulations.
Within healthcare organizations, the temptation for some staff can be great: wh....
HIPAA: 43,691 Privacy Complaints and Counting
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2009
For those wondering what progress the Office for Civil Rights makes as it works through HIPAA privacy rule complaints, the numbers are easy to find. Each month OCR reports top-line results of the HIPAA cases it has received and resolved.
OCR has logged approximately 43,700 complaints....
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