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Charting HIPAA’s Course: Past Roads Lead to Today’s ARRA, Affordable Care Act Changes
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2012
This year the healthcare industry will contend with more changes to HIPAA resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Affordable Care Act of 2010. In order to understand where the HIPAA regulations are heading, it helps to take a look back at the roads they ha....
AHIMA’s 2012 Advocacy Goals: An Agenda for the Knowns and Unknowns in the Year Ahead
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
The new year will offer a multitude of knowns and unknowns. In many instances the larger issues are established but the details have yet to be revealed.
The industry will be implementing stage 2 of the meaningful use incentive program, for instance; however, providers and system ven....
The Year in Review: Multiple Initiatives and Rules in 2011 Require HIM Expertise
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
The theme for this year's advocacy and influence efforts at AHIMA has been "the year of the health information management professional." All of the major healthcare and health IT issues throughout the year have had an HIM component, and all of AHIMA's advocacy efforts have reflected that.
Telling the HIM Story in Meaningful Use
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
The term "meaningful use" is used freely within Washington and throughout the healthcare industry. For HIM professionals it is not a new concept, but the term has proliferated in the last few years with the creation of the ARRA-funded EHR incentive program.
At some point the talk wi....
“Meaningful Privacy” – Does Today’s Privacy Environment Really Provide Privacy?
Author: Rode, Dan; Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
To build and maintain the public’s trust in health IT requires comprehensive privacy and security protections that are based on fair information practices and set clear rules on how patient data can be accessed, used and disclosed, and that are adequately enforced....
Advocacy and Influence at the American Health Information Management Association
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
At most AHIMA conventions various AHIMA staff present both environmental updates as well as technical updates through presentations at the General Assembly, Education Sessions, Breakfast Briefings and a host of other venues. The majority of these sessions are targeted to speci....
HIM’s Changing Functions: Multiple Initiatives and Legislation Will Broaden HIM Responsibilities
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2011
ARRA-HITECH has had a major impact on the HIM profession over the last two years. However, the profession has also felt the effects of regulatory changes from Medicare legislation and budget act provisions passed in the last decade.
These changes will have a short- and long-term imp....
AHIMA Comments on Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the HITECH Act
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: July 29, 2011
Privacy and Security Take Center Stage: Events in May Affect HIM’s Privacy and Security Obligations
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2011
While many HIM issues have been raised this spring, confidentiality, privacy, and security have cast a shadow on all of them, reminding HIM professionals of their data stewardship responsibilities as new rules and requirements are published. Thus in May three events occurred that will affect H....
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.....
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