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Patient-friendly Approach to the Record Amendment Process
Author: Thieleman, William
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2002
HIPAA promises patients the right to access and amend their medical records, but HIM departments are responsible for making it happen. How will your facility provide this service for patients? The author offers ideas from experts on designing an access and amendment process.
Among the ch....
Journal Q&A (5/02)
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: May 02, 2002
Q: In light of HIPAA restrictions on protected health information, Im concerned about our HIM departments practice of accepting HIM students for professional practice experience. What should be considered in deciding whether to continue this practice?
A: HIPAAs pr....
Journal Q&A (6/02)
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: June 02, 2002
Q: Our facility is developing our notice of privacy practices under HIPAA. We need to decide how we will communicate with individuals when we make changes to our notice. What are the acceptable methods for communicating with our patient population? Do we have to send a paper copy to everyone whose....
What's Your Designated Record Set? (HIPAA on the Job)
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....
Information Destruction Programs: How You Can Defend Them and They Can Defend You
Author: Johnson, Robert J.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: June 02, 2002
Death and taxes are often jokingly referred to as the only sure things in life. However, for the purposes of this article, I’d like to offer three additional scenarios: Hard-copy records of patient information will be created in abundance and in many different forms.
Those records will e....
Journal Q&A (7/02)
Author: AHIMA Professional Practice Team
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: July 02, 2002
Q: I have requested the immunization records from a patients former healthcare provider with the patients written permission. The former healthcare provider refuses to send the immunization records because the patient has a balance on the account. Is this legal?
A:....
Simple Steps to Tracking Disclosures
Author: Hughes, Gwen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
The many exceptions to the HIPAA privacy rules accounting of disclosures standard make it difficult to determine what must be tracked. Although the rule gives patients the right to receive an accounting of disclosures of their health information, it lists several exceptions. This article....
Journal Q&A (7/02)
Author: AHIMA Professional Practice Team
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: July 02, 2002
Q: I work in a clinic setting. An attorney has requested copies of a patients entire record. The record includes reports dictated by one of the clinic physicians at a local hospital during the patients hospitalization. The attorney has the patients permission. Are we allowed....
On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
Q: I work in a clinic setting. An attorney has requested copies of a patient's entire record. The record includes reports dictated by one of the clinic physicians at a local hospital during the patient's hospitalization. The attorney has the patient's permission. Are we allowed under HIPAA to....
Does Your State Law Pass the Preemption Test? (part 1)
Author: Roach, Michael C.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: August 02, 2002
Part one in a two-part series
This is the first of two articles on the subject of HIPAA preemption of state privacy law. This article will explain the provisions of the HIPAA regulations regarding preemption. In the September issue we will discuss some practical effects of the preemptio....
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