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Breach Notification: Technically Speaking
November 18, 2009 9:50 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
While researching for my encryption article, " Are You Secured? " I was struck by what I would consider a loophole in the breach notification rules. According to the new regulations, when a security breach or theft occurs, the covered entity or business Read More...
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FTC Probes CVS
November 6, 2009 9:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Your friendly neighborhood drug store--OK, more like the corporate colossus that runs it--is under investigation again. CVS Caremark Corp. announced yesterday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the company's business practices, according Read More...
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AHIMA 2009: The Health Information Bill of Rights
October 6, 2009 8:41 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
At a news conference yesterday, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) unveiled its Health Information Bill of Rights, a set of seven principles designed to protect and promote patient access to personal health information. Craig 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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HHS Releases Breach Notification Final Rule
August 20, 2009 9:41 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a final rule on breach notification requirements for covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs). Published in the Federal Register , the rule dictates proper procedure for responding 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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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski
I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...
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Malicious Use of PHI Lands Woman in Jail
June 11, 2009 3:02 PM by Lynn Jusinski
In a strange case of Internet harassment involving personal health information (PHI), a woman finds herself facing a year in prison for what a judge called "egregious" behavior, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. Rhonda Wong-Fernandez was sent immediately Read More...
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Suleman’s Records Accessed; 15 Employees Fired
March 31, 2009 11:18 AM by Lynn Jusinski
I had a feeling when the Octomom story hit the wire and all the details spilled out that someone would be caught sneaking a peek at her medical records. Sure enough, 15 workers were fired for looking at the records of Nadya Suleman without permission. Read More...
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Company Sells Health Info to Pharma Companies
March 27, 2009 9:36 AM by Lynn Jusinski
Would you share your personal health information on the Internet, including intimate information like how sexually active you are or how heavy your menstrual cycles are? Well, more than 27 million people have, according to a New York Times article on 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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Surgery Goes Web 2.0
February 17, 2009 4:06 PM by Lynn Jusinski
One of these things is not like the other: "Watching a good bootleg of The Wrestler." "Holy cannoli, unhappy baby. Early bedtime for you, kiddo." "Dr rogers (sic) has adequately sutured closed the urinary collecting system and any bleeding vessels." The Read More...
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A Smoking Idea...and One Not-So-Hot
November 20, 2008 12:36 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
I’ve heard complaints about doctors who don’t take their own advice. You know, the ones who pause in the middle of explaining the benefits of exercise to hack up a lung or hike their pants up over their guts? Well, HIM professionals are just as immersed Read More...
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What's On the West Coast
October 10, 2008 11:36 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Before I wind my watch to Pacific Time, I thought I'd scan health care headlines from the West Coast. In California, the Governator just vetoed a legislative bill 2 years in the making that would have required medical facilities to inform patients of Read More...
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