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HIPAA Breach Enforcement Roundup
Author: Cacciatore, Victoria; Downing, Katherine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
Criminal attacks on healthcare systems have risen 100 percent since 2010, according to a recent Ponemon study.1 This makes it obvious that the privacy and security of patient health information is vulnerable and highly susceptible to data breach. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule became e....
HIPAA Audit and System Activity Review: Developing a Process that Focuses on the Greatest Risks First
Author: Hofler, Linda D.; Hardee, Joy; Dildy, Kenneth; Burleson, Deeanna; Grady, Jamie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2005
The privacy and security rules require audits and system activity reviews. Here is one health system's process, a systematic approach that focuses on areas of greatest risk.
Ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of patient information is fundamental to HIM, but it has taken on a new le....
HIPAA and the EHR: Making Technical Safeguard Changes
Author: Fodor, Joseph
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2004
As electronic health records (EHRs) become more commonplace in healthcare, changes, adjustments, and improvements will be inevitable. When designing, implementing, upgrading, or remediating an EHR system, your organizations implementation team should consider the impact of complying wit....
HIPAA and Privacy: After the Compliance Date
Author: Mikels, Debbie
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Abstract
This article reviews successful strategies in preparing for HIPAA Privacy compliance. There are ongoing challenges organizations will face after the compliance date, such as managing research issues, identifying all business associates, and managing the accounting of disclosures....
HIPAA and Mental Health Information: Know the Law
Author: Malek, Linda A.; Krex, Brian
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: November 02, 2002
The privacy regulations promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (the privacy regulations) will clearly have a tremendous impact on most healthcare entities. However, the effect of the privacy regulations on mental health providers with respect t....
HIPAA and Electronic HIM Systems
Author: McLendon, Kelly
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 23, 2002
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
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....
High Cost of Privacy
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: January 02, 2001
Cost: how much money needs to be invested? By now, most of us have discussed the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) final rules with our administrators, and naturally the question has been raised, “Just how much is this going to cost me?”Most lik....
HHS Steps up HIPAA Audits: Now Is the Time to Review Security Policies and Procedures
Author: Greene, Adam H
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
Now Is the Time to Review Security Policies and Procedures
In June 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services awarded KPMG a $9.2-million contract to create an audit protocol and audit organizational compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security requirements.1 The co....
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