Author: Ruano, Michael

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: November 02, 2003

Part nine in a 10-part series.
This article is the ninth of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of law, investigation, and ethics covers these topics in depth and provides a p....

Author: U.S. Office for Civil Rights

Source: Government (U.S.) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Publication Date: August 24, 2004

Question

State public records laws, also known as open records or freedom of information laws, all provide for certain public access to government records. How does the HIPAA Privacy Rule relate to these state laws?
Answer
If a state agency is not a “covered entity”, as....

Author: Miller, Judith A.

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: November 02, 2003

Advocate Health Care is a large, fully integrated not-for-profit healthcare delivery system in metropolitan Chicago. Many months prior to the April 14, 2003, deadline, Advocate began preparing for the HIPAA privacy compliance deadline.When April 14 arrived, Advocate’s associates and physician....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: March 01, 2014

Health information management (HIM) professionals are too often witness to an array of fraudulent activities, whether its fraud via “upcoding,” improper disclosure of protected health information (PHI), or other breach activities.


Since reporting noncomplia....

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2011

This is a true story that occurred recently in Indiana. Failing to collect payment for treatment, a medical group sent a patient to collections. In providing the unpaid bills to the collections attorney, practice staff failed to redact sensitive information. When the attorney filed the bills wi....

Author: Solove, Daniel J

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2013

Ten years ago after countless years of germination and many twists and turns, the HIPAA Privacy Rule finally became effective. It would soon be followed by the HIPAA Security Rule-which was published in 2003 and became effective in 2005-and eventually by the HIPAA Enforcement Rule and the....

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2010

This month the Journal introduces a new “Working Smart” column titled “ARRA on the Job,” offering HIM professionals practical guidance on interpreting, planning for, and implementing provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.



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Author: Gorton, Elisa R.; Lantis, James R. Jr.; Lemery, Chrisann

Source: External - used with permission

Publication Date: May 07, 2008

Health care providers have begun to raise concerns regarding what they perceive to be conflicts between requests for information, using language such as "any and all", and the HIPAA mandate to provide only the "minimum necessary." (Health Plan & Provider Report, BNA)

Author: Hedges, Ron; Brady, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2014

Every Health information management (HIM) professional, lawyer, and healthcare consumer should be familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). For healthcare consumers, HIPAA offers protections and rights of access to personal health information. For HIM....

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.

Source: Behavioral Health

Publication Date: July 02, 2001

The new HIPAA privacy final rule mandate that affords a higher level of privacy restriction to psychotherapy notes is creating a fair amount of confusion for healthcare providers. Restricted access to mental health records should not be something new to health information management profession....