Author: U.S. Office for Civil Rights

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: August 17, 2004

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2001

We have a privacy rule. After years of effort from AHIMA members, the first national privacy standards were allowed to go into effect by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, with pressure from the White House.

It's time for HIM professi....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2001

One of the mysteries of the administrative simplification section of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is determining who is covered or comes under the requirements of the act. This article will examine HIPAA to unravel some of the mystery of &quo....

Author: Warner, Diana

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2013

The HITECH Act’s omnibus HIPAA modification final rule, released January 25, 2013, finalized sweeping changes to privacy and security regulations. Though much of the proposed rule was adopted, the omnibus rule included major changes made to the “harm threshold” standard i....

Author: Dougherty, Michelle

Source: In Confidence (newsletter) | AHIMA Q and A

Publication Date: February 02, 2003

Question: I am a long-term care (LTC) consultant. An attorney for a facility I contract with stated the organization does not have to provide a notice of privacy practices to the residents in the facility on April 14, 2003, when the privacy rule becomes effective. Only newly admitted resident....

Author: Amatayakul, Margret; Waymack, Pam

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2002

The HIPAA privacy rule provides individuals the right to request access to and amendment of their protected health information maintained in a designated record set (DRS). To ensure that the DRS is completely identified but excludes information that does not pertain, covered entities should ad....

Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2008

The privacy rule is just six, but gaps in its coverage have already widened. Now some organizations are recommending that the rule—or something like it—expand to cover any organization that handles personal health information in any form.



Six years ago....

Author: AHIMA Professional Practice Team

Source: AHIMA Q and A

Publication Date: October 2002

Because HIPAA gives patients the right to copy their medical records, does my facility have to supply a copy machine for this purpose or allow patients to take their records to a copy center?
According to section 164.520 of the HIPAA final privacy rule, an individual has "the right to inspect....

Author: Bowley, Kathleen

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: January 02, 2003

With the April 14, 2003, HIPAA deadline fast approaching, many healthcare professionals need immediate assistance meeting this critical deadline. So how does an organization achieve appropriate compliance training in a short time frame? The answer for some associations may be Web-based traini....

Author: Gallagher, Patrick; Pavoni, Mary Mike

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: April 02, 2003

HIPAA laws have strengthened patients’ rights concerning access to their private medical information while at the same time making them more aware of their rights. Consequently, more patients are going to be requesting an accounting of disclosures (AOD) in the future.
According to secti....