ADVANCE Perspective: HIM : medical records personal health information

Breach Notification: Technically Speaking

Cheryl McEvoy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:50:00 GMT

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)

FTC Probes CVS

Cheryl McEvoy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:51:00 GMT

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)

Movies and Medical Records

Lisa Algeo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:00 GMT

(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)

HHS Releases Breach Notification Final Rule

Cheryl McEvoy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:41:00 GMT

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)

Registry: Child's Play?

Cheryl McEvoy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:43:00 GMT

Call me a bandwagoner, but I just started reading Julie and Julia (Quite frankly, I'm just a wannabe foodie who wanted something to breeze through after being semi-forced into reading a 500-page sci-fi book). I was poring through Julie Powell's witticisms...(read more)

HIPAA be damned?

Lynn Jusinski — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:05:00 GMT

[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)

Retail Clinic Check-up

Lynn Jusinski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:30:00 GMT

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)