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Movies and Medical Records
November 3, 2009 12:47 PM by Lisa Algeo
(Editor's note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE .) It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language Read More...
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PHRs Go Overseas
October 29, 2009 9:26 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
If you've been following Jay's blog, " XY Files in and MT World ," recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It's enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local. Read More...
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On the Record
September 30, 2009 11:24 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
With all the prep for next week's American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit and our HIM Team of the Year coverage (Yes, we have a winner!), I've been neglecting my Google Alerts. Well, I found some time this morning to Read More...
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HIPAA be damned?
July 14, 2009 8:05 AM by Lynn Jusinski
[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad Read More...
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A Dose of Reality
March 26, 2009 9:58 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Thanks to Obama's rah-rah health care reform, the general public is turning an ear to EHR. But what exactly are they hearing? At first mention of EHRs in the stimulus package, news outlets swooped in with the "revolutionizing health care" angle. A national Read More...
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Patient Consent Gets New Meaning
February 27, 2009 10:37 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
It's Friday. The weekend is almost here. Friends are coming in from out of town. So of course, I'm gathering all the weird news I can to make for some interesting dinner conversation. And the great debate over patient privacy has turned up two gems: First Read More...
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Abortion Records Go on Long, Strange Trip
February 24, 2009 4:05 PM by Lynn Jusinski
When patient records of women receiving abortions made their way from the Sedgwick County, KS, court to the Johnson County, KS, district attorney's office and then probably on to somewhere in Virginia and then back to Johnson County, KS, that's an issue Read More...
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A Supreme Controversy
October 8, 2008 3:02 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
Privacy issues are tipping the scales of justice as the Supreme Court of Ohio will determine whether private health information can be released in a civil case against Planned Parenthood. The parents of a minor who got an abortion at Planned Parenthood Read More...
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