The HIPAA Privacy Officer job description template includes the following job summary: Manages the organization's and its group health plans' compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA Privacy Rule, state laws, and internal healthcare information privacy policies including implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization's and...
Electronic prescribing offers the prospect of safer medication management, but fulfillment of that promise depends on ready access to personal health information from many sources, thus raising new concerns about information privacy and security. Federal privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HIPAA limit the...
This study examines physicians' attitudes toward key Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements and assesses the effects of their implementation. It finds that despite physicians' generally negative views toward the Privacy Rule, they rated organizations implementing more rule requirements better at protecting the privacy of patient...
This paper presents a report the aim of which is to design and test the reliability of a web-based system for multicenter, real-time collection of data in the Emergency Department ED, under waiver of authorization, in compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA. Data can be accurately collected...
The Privacy Rule is a confusing, complex and broad-reaching regulatory requirement that will affect every aspect of the health care system for many years to come. Employers face dramatic challenges in adjusting their operations to this rule, even though providing health care benefits typically is a minute portion of a...
This white paper provides a brief introduction to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA and discusses the requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services' general administrative requirements rule regarding privacy and access to information as it pertains to hospitals and health care providers in the United...
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- Health Net Federal Services, LLC, the government operations division of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), today announced that it has been awarded Health Network Reaccreditation from URAC, a Washington, D.C.-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry. URAC's Health Network Accreditation...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. has created and now offers a healthcare consumer sensitive web-based application integrated with its award winning enterprise-wide access management and scheduling products. The new product, Consumer Access and Scheduling for Healthcare CASH will be linked to USA's Resources Management System RMS or may...
Guide to HIPAA security and the law. Ed. by Stephen S. Wu. American Bar Association 2007 324 pages $79.95 Paperback KF3827 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA of 1996 has substantially standardized...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the third consecutive time, SHPS, a leading independent provider of health management and benefits administration solutions, was granted full URAC accreditation for HIPAA Privacy. URAC, an independent, non-profit healthcare accrediting organization dedicated to promoting healthcare quality through accreditation, certification, and commendation, developed the HIPAA Privacy accreditation...
Dear Heloise: Three hours from home, my 64-year-old husband ended up in an emergency room with horrible pains, cold chills and nausea. He called me on his cell phone and told me the name of the town, but was too ill to even go to the desk and find out...
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. -- In their ongoing efforts to assist organizations with their compliance programs, HCPro, the leader in compliance training and education resources for healthcare professionals, today unveiled its new online learning courses for corporate compliance and HIPAA privacy and security training programs. The enhanced and redesigned course libraries add...
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a former administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center for allegedly disclosing health records of celebrity patients to an unnamed "national media outlet" in exchange for money, according to the U.S. attorney's office. Lawanda Jackson was indicted for ...
Telerad is a new Web-based teleradiology study management service from SoftLight Development that enables teleradiologists to access their studies over the Web from any computer while maintaining HIPAA privacy compliance. The service keeps both stationary images and animations in an FDA-compliant DICOM format allowing accurate measurements to be taken with...
Q Our HIPAA supervisor insists that we have to remove all identifying information from slides before discarding them. Is this true? A This is the HIPAA question that will not die. It first raised its head when HIPAA was new and uncharted territory for the laboratory. In my...
A survey of U.S. healthcare organizations suggests that the industry's focus on medical privacy and HIPAA compliance limits other patient data security practices NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The healthcare industry's focus on medical privacy and compliance has fostered a lack of awareness around the frequency, cause and seriousness of...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA, which became effective on April 14, 2003, was intended to help ensure patient privacy and to increase patients' control of their personal health information. However, implementation has created numerous practical problems. Many of these drawbacks are familiar to clinicians who have had...
Q Our lab personnel have concerns about the practice of leaving laboratory results--especially critical ones--with an answering service if the physician cannot be reached. What are the legal issues? A Like many situations in lab medicine, this one has several aspects. The first revolves around the issue of...
Kinn's The medical assistant; an applied learning approach, 10th ed. (CD-ROM included) Young, Alexandra Patricia and Debroah B. Proctor. Elsevier Health Sciences 2007 1426 pages $74.95 Hardcover R728 For this tenth edition of a...
Organizations are training employees to avoid liability. A SPIKE IN DEMAND FOR TRAINING on privacy protection is appearing in organizations thanks to increased government mandates and liability concerns inside companies, according to training experts. Privacy-related regulations including data protection have already been adopted within the federal...
