ADVANCE Perspective: HIM : privacy violations

Health IT Outsourcing Enabled by the New Omnibus HIPAA Rule

Sharlene George — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:23:00 GMT

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Peter Tippett, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and vice president of the Innovation Incubator, Verizon.) The long-awaited Final Rule implementing HITECH Act amendments to HIPAA simplifies outsourcing in health...(read more)

Cloud Computing Meets HIPAA Omnibus: A Provider Checklist

Sharlene George — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:25:00 GMT

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Frankie Rios, CISSP, VP information security and compliance, GNAX) Cloud computing and storage is an undeniable migration path and IT strategy. Overall spending on cloud technology is expected to reach an...(read more)

HIMSS 2013: Hackers Want Your Stuff

Sharlene George — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:47:00 GMT

( This guest blog was written from HIMSS 2013 by Adrianne O'Brien of Executive Insight.) As hospitals strive for increased patient engagement to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions, that engagement means more IT solutions, which means more opportunity...(read more)

The Four V's of Big Data

Sharlene George — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:21:00 GMT

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA's Health Information Integrity Summit by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) The American Health Information Management Association's Health Information Integrity Summit:...(read more)

Tips and Technology to Protect Your Organization's Health Information Assets and Manage ROI

Sharlene George — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:42:00 GMT

(This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) Three presentations on release of information (ROI) issues were a focus of Wednesday's educational track at AHIMA's 84 th annual Convention...(read more)

Preventing Data Breaches: Are Healthcare Organizations Doing Enough?

Lisa Brzezicki — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT

In an April 20 press release, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced that it discovered a breach of patient information, which resulted when a document sent to an individual outside of UAMS for analysis of billing charges was...(read more)

Most Patient Record Storage is Like Hiding Money in Mattress

Sharlene George — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:59:00 GMT

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Craig K. Collins, president and CEO of Perminova Inc., La Jolla, Calif.) One weekend afternoon last fall, a burglar broke into an office and stole some computer equipment. That fairly commonplace crime resulted...(read more)

AHIOS Annual Meeting Addressed Current State of HIPAA

Lisa Algeo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:53:00 GMT

The Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHIOS), an organization committed to promoting excellence in the handling and dissemination of confidential, patient-identifiable information, held its annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah,...(read more)

Three UMC Tucson Employees Fired for Accessing Victims' Medical Records

Lisa Algeo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:54:00 GMT

According to a statement issued by the University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, the hospital has terminated three clinical support staff members this week for inappropriately accessing confidential electronic medical records of victims in Saturday's shooting....(read more)

AHIOS Fall Meeting Addresses Critical Issues at 2010 AHIMA Convention

Lisa Algeo — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:38:00 GMT

The Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHIOS), an organization committed to promoting excellence in the handling and dissemination of confidential patient-identifiable information, gathered for its annual Fall meeting in Orlando,...(read more)

AHIMA Responds to HHS Privacy Rules

Lisa Algeo — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:35:00 GMT

In a letter last week directed to Georgina Verdugo, JD, LLM, MPA, director of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) responded to the July 14 proposed privacy rule...(read more)

Rite Aid to Pay $1 Million to Settle HIPAA Case

Lisa Algeo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:47:00 GMT

Rite Aid Corp. and its 40 affiliated entities have agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced. In a coordinated action, the company also signed a...(read more)

Remember Your Manners

Lisa Algeo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:33:00 GMT

(Editor's note: The following blog is written by Skyler Perkins, a full-time AuD student at ATSU - Arizona School of Health Sciences.) I usually experience healthcare from the provider's point of view, but I recently had the opportunity to experience...(read more)

AHIOS Spring Meeting Tackles Tough Topics

Lisa Algeo — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:32:00 GMT

The Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHIOS) gathered for its annual Spring meeting in New Orleans back in March. Joining the AHIOS members at the meeting were healthcare industry expert, Dr. Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights...(read more)

Mistakes Were Made

Lisa Algeo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:28:00 GMT

(Editor's Note: This guest blog is written by Matthew T. Patton ( mpatton@advanceweb.com ), editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals .) Wall Street failures. The housing market and mortgage industry collapse. The epic, disastrous BP oil...(read more)