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Who's Covered by HIPAA (HIPAA on the Job)
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....
Quest for Patients' Trust Only Just Begun
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
Some saw the final rule on HIPAA privacy, published in August 2002, as a crowning achievement after years of efforts to secure patient privacy. Others took a more negative view, claiming that big business had finally ensured unhampered access to patient data. HIM professionals, however, should....
HIPAA Compliance Extension Postpones Simplification Benefits
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2002
Under the terms of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, February 2002 would mark the second anniversary of administrative simplification for all but the smallest of health plans, and one year of rules related to claims attachments. Instead, Congress just approve....
Take Another Look: Proposed Changes to Privacy Rule
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2002
In late March, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed changes related to the HIPAA privacy standards. By the time you read this column, the 30-day comment period for these regulations will have already passed, although debate on these changes will still be in full....
AHIMA Comments: Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: September 16, 2010
2010 Healthcare Calendar: The Deadlines and Initiatives to Prepare for This Year
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2010
Last year saw movement on major HIM issues, starting in January with the publication of the ICD-10-CM/PCS final rule. This was quickly followed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which has dominated healthcare discussions all year, matched only by the healthcare reform d....
HIPAA Marches On--Or Does It?
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2005
HIPAA has taught us that standardization is hard. When the act was signed into law in 1996, the optimists among us believed that within four years the healthcare industry would be using a variety of uniform national administrative transactions, most associated with what we now call the revenue....
Comments to NCVHS on HIPAA Electronic Claims Attachments
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: January 26, 2004
January 26, 2004
Simon Cohn, MD, MPH, FACP
Chairman, NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards and Security, and
National Director for Health Information Policy
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
One Kaiser Plaza
Oakland, California 94612
Re: HIPAA Att....
The Omnibus Arrives: OCR Issues HITECH-HIPAA Final Privacy Rule
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has published the long-awaited final omnibus rules covering many HITECH Act requirements in the January 25, 2013 Federal Register (78FR5566). The rule is officially titled “Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notific....
AHIMA Solicitation for Information on the Hospital CAHPS
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: July 25, 2003
Elizabeth Goldstein
Director Division of Beneficiary Analysis
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Mail Stop: S1-13-05
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850
Re: Solicitation for Information on....
Transactions Delay Prompts Concern Among Covered Entities
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2002
AHIMA recently attended a meeting of healthcare providers, payers, and staff representatives of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Organized by the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions, the meet....
NCVHS Groups Explore CPR, Privacy Rule Possibilities
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2001
HIPAA's fifth anniversary was marked by meetings of two key subcommittees of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS): the standards (transactions) and security subcommittee and the privacy and confidentiality subcommittee. At the security subcommittee, experts fr....
AHIMA Letter to the Secretaries of HHS and DoD on Security and Privacy of Protected Health Information
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: January 06, 2003
January 6, 2003
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary
Department of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000
Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Room 615-F, Hubert H Humphrey Building
200 Independ....
Final Privacy Rule Puts Health Information in National Spotlight
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2001
Amid much fanfare that included a ceremony with AHIMA representatives as invited guests, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the HIPAA standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information on December 20, 2000. The rule was published in the Feder....
HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Electronic Health Care Claims Attachments CMS-0050-P
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: January 20, 2006
January 20, 2006
Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
CMS-0050-P
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
Room 445-G
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Re: HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for E....
AHIMA's Comments on the HIPAA Privacy Notice of Proposed Rule Making
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: April 25, 2002
AMERICAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
233 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2150
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1090
April 25, 2002
Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
c/o Office for Civil Rights
Aligning ICD-10: Federal Initiatives Recognize the Value of Integration
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2011
The theme of this month's Journal is very timely on two accounts. First, the process for implementing ICD-10-CM/PCS is heating up as the industry is now six months from what many consider the first national milestone: the January 2012 compliance deadline for the HIPAA 5010 transaction upgrade.....
Analysis of the Final Rule: HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Modification to Medical Data Code Set Standards to Adopt ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA regulation analysis
Publication Date: February 02, 2009
AHIMA Comments on FY03 Medicare OP-PPS
Author: Rode, Dan; Prophet-Bowman, Sue
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: October 03, 2002
October 3, 2002
Thomas A. Scully
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Attention: CMS-1206-P
PO Box 8018
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-8018
Re: File Code CMS-1206-P<....
Low-Tech Threats in a High-Tech World
Author: Rollins, Genna
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 2011
Despite the rise of health IT, healthcare providers still face daily privacy and security risks of the mundane variety—paper records are misplaced, improperly disclosed, or released without confidential information redacted. No matter the opportunities and risks that technology bring....
HIM on the Front Lines of Change: Marching Toward the National Health Information Infrastructure
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
What will it take to get the much-needed national health information infrastructure (NHII) up and running? Plenty of support from HIM professionals is vital, plus renewed attention to standards and information technology. Learn how each of these factors contribute to making the NHII a reality.....
HIPAA Requirements for Secure Record Storage and Data Transfer
Author: Rosenbaum, Arnold S.; Nelson, Gina A.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson released the Final Regulations for Security Standards in final form in February 2003. The security standards were developed to help safeguard confidential health information, which is being processed increasingly by computers.
The mandates require covered ent....
Overdose of Privacy Law Creates Headaches for Student Health Clinics
Author: Roth, Julie A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2004
When the HIPAA privacy rule went into effect, HIM professionals began juggling HIPAA standards along with all the other federal and state laws impacting health information privacy. While this juggling act is always difficult, the mix of HIPAA and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act....
Creating a Perfect Balance: the Line Between Information Gathering, Respecting Privacy
Author: Rozen, Michael J.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: December 02, 2002
Consumers and patients are becoming increasingly and justifiably worried about the confidentiality of their personal information. Cases of prominent disclosures recently highlighted by the media have heightened the fear of abuse and discrimination from inappropriate disclosure of protected he....
Exploring HIPAA's Security Domains: Security Management Practices
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: March 02, 2003
Part one in a 10-part series.
This article is the first of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. This first domain of security management practices is the most general and introduces some topics t....
How Law, Investigation, Ethics Connect to HIPAA
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....
Physical Security and HIPAA: What You Need to Know Now
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: December 02, 2003
This article is the final installment of a 10-part series that introduced the domains of information security and related them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of physical security covers threats against and the controls required to protect facilities, equipment,....
Cryptography and HIPAA: Breaking the Code
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: June 02, 2003
Part four in a 10-part series.
This article is the fourth of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of cryptography is probably the most complex and mathematical of all the domai....
Security and HIPAA: Protecting Your Operations
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: August 02, 2003
Part six in a 10-part series.
This article is the sixth of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of operations security includes the topics of controls, protections, monitoring,....
Building Privacy: Security Architecture, Models Under HIPAA
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: July 02, 2003
Part five in a 10-part series.
This article is the fifth of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of security architecture and models speaks to computer architectures, security....
Understanding Telecommunications, Network Security, and HIPAA
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: May 02, 2003
Part three in a 10-part series.
This article is the third of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The third information security domain of telecommunications and network security is the largest and most compl....
Moving Toward a Unified Information Security Program
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
Is your organization up to the challenge of creating a unified information security program?
A unified information security program has been all but mandated for healthcare organizations by the federal government. HIPAA requires that electronic, paper, and oral patient identif....
Managing Applications, Systems Development Security Under HIPAA
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: September 02, 2003
Part seven in a 10-part series.
This article is the seventh of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. The information security domain of applications and systems development includes topics that cover the craft....
Information Governance for Offsite Data Security
Author: Saharia, Devendra
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
Disruptive technology can turn any industry on its head—virtually overnight. Just five years ago, summoning a taxi was an inefficient, time-consuming effort that often involved dialing up a dispatcher, who contacted a driver, who would then make their way to your location, perhaps in an h....
Web-based Applications Offer Data Processing Solutions
Author: Salem, Didier
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: July 02, 2003
While adherence to most of the HIPAA privacy rule clauses requires establishment of policies, procedures, and training of appropriate personnel, some of the clauses require establishing permanent record-keeping processes. Accounting of disclosures, minimum necessary, complaints, sanctions, an....
Release of Information for Marketing or Fund-raising Purposes (2013 update) - Retired
Author: Schmidt, Peg; Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: August 2013
Editor's note: This update supplants the 2002 practice brief "Release of Information for Marketing or Fund-raising Purposes."
Since its original compliance date in 2003, the HIPAA privacy rule required covered entities (CEs) to adhere to certain standards relative to the use....
Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule [revision 1]
Author: Scholl, Matthew; Stine, Kevin; Hash, Joan; Bowen, Pauline; Johnson, Arnold; Smith, Carla; Steinberg, Daniel
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: October 24, 2008
DSMOs Shed Light on Future Coding Systems, Data Sets
Author: Scichilone, Rita A
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2002
The future of coding systems in healthcare transactions is brighter than many might think. Because of the rapid changes in healthcare services, technology, and the industry as a whole, there are more coding systems emerging that may affect the work of clinical coding professionals in the futur....
HIPAA Recognizes State Law Differences
Author: Smith, Cheryl M.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter) | AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: November 02, 2001
Question: What does the HIPAA privacy rule mean when it refers to a state law that is “contrary” or “more stringent”?
Answer: The HIPAA privacy rule defines a state law as being contrary to the privacy rule when, in comparing a state law to a standard, requirement, or implementation spe....
On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions
Author: Smith, Cheryl M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2001
Q: Where can I find information on the interpretation of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization standards?
Q: How does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) define health information in the final rule for healthcare elec....
HIPAA Turns 10: Analyzing the Past, Present and Future Impact
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....
HIPAA Mighty and Flawed: Regulation has Wide-Reaching Impact on the Healthcare Industry
Author: Solove, Daniel J
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
How HIPAA has performed overall as a privacy law is open to interpretation, but most agree it has had a wide-reaching impact on the healthcare industry. In comparison to the dozens of federal privacy laws for various industries, HIPAA is one of the most comprehensive and detailed.
Hurricane Katrina: HIPAA Privacy and Electronic Health Records of Evacuees
Author: Stevens, Gina Marie; U.S. Congressional Research Service
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
PRISM: Privacy Toolkit for Public Health Professionals
Author: Suarez, Walter G.; Hohner, Vicki; Public Health Data Standards Consortium
Source: External web site
Publication Date: July 26, 2007
PRISM is an electronic tool to provide state and local government health programs, and public health departments in particular, with a convenient way to understand basic legal privacy requirements for identifiable health information use and disclosure.
Mind Your Business Associate Access: Six Steps
Author: Sullivan, Tori E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2002
It's April 10, 2003, and a privacy officer is reviewing her policies for the imminent privacy regulations, title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. The compliance deadline is April 13, 2003, and she is already feeling stressed about meeting the date.....
National Outlook on Privacy—Confidentiality Panel
Author: Tang, Paul C.
Source: HIPAA Conference 2000
Publication Date: March 14, 2000
2000 HIPAA Conference Presentation
National Outlook on PrviacyConfidentiality Panel
The HIPAAcratic Oath: Do No Harm to Patient Data
Presented by Paul C. Tang, MD, Palo Alto Medical Clinic and Epic Research Institute Outline
Confidentiality Principles Highlights of HIPAA P....
National Outlook on Privacy--Confidentiality Panel
Author: Tang, Paul C.
Source: HIPAA Conference 2000
Publication Date: March 14, 2000
2000 HIPAA Conference Presentation
National Outlook on PrviacyConfidentiality Panel
The HIPAAcratic Oath: Do No Harm to Patient Data
Presented by Paul C. Tang, MD, Palo Alto Medical Clinic and Epic Research Institute Outline
Confidentiality Principles Highlights of HIPAA P....
Information Security
Author: Tang, Paul C.
Source: HIPAA Conference 2000
Publication Date: March 14, 2000
2000 HIPAA Conference Presentation
Information Security
Presented by Paul Tang, MD Information Systems Security
NRC Definition Security is the protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing, or transit,....
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....
Guidelines for Determining Business Associate Agreements
Author: Thomason, Mary
Source: AHIMA sample form
Publication Date: November 21, 2002
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