It's the unfortunate but frequent way that a facility experiences a medical records breach. Someone leaves medical records information in a vehicle, said vehicle is broken into and the information is out there, compromised. In this case, the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics experienced the breach. A courier for an offsite ...

This morning, the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHOIS) issued the following press release regarding its concerns about the pending New York medical record legislation. There are three bills pending in the New York legislature, A. 9501, S. 6626, and S. 1970, that seek to limit the fees that may be charged for the often ...

The news is not really shocking to HIM professionals who've seen EHR adoption up close and personal, especially if those HIM professionals had any dealings with the CFO while working toward implementing an electronic record. The New England Journal of Medicine published a study on the adoption of EHRs by ambulatory physicians. Only 4 percent ...

I've had so many things that I've wanted to post about lately. Unfortunately, time has been a bit crunched. I'm working on a few articles that I'm excited about, and I'm also trying to get a brand new Salary Survey up and running so we can bring you the most accurate and relevant results. Also, here at ADVANCE, we're entering the wide world of Web ...

We received this statement from the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHIOS) in our inboxes this morning here at ADVANCE. I've covered AHIOS before, for an article on a different release of information (ROI) law. I've linked to the bills below, and I'd like to hear what you have to say about them from an HIM professional's ...

After reading this article on CNN.com, I became curious about my own health information. I visited my health insurer's portal, and after struggling for quite some time to remember the password and user name I used way back when, I got a peek at what health information is available on me online. It isn't very much. I visited a doctor last July. ...

The headline screams, ''Across USA, Anxiety Over Access to Patient Records.'' It grabbed my attention, and I found it to be an interesting read. It seems that back in 2006, USA Today set up a patient safety Web site to give readers a venue to express concerns about inadequate medical care. Readers can send in their own stories, including anything ...

I'm sure most of you have heard about the privacy breaches at UCLA Medical Center by now. You can't turn on an entertainment show or open a newspaper without being barraged by ''Celebrity Patients Need Privacy Too'' or ''More UCLA Record Abuses Found.'' The saga actually began last spring, when a tabloid ran an exclusive story about Farrah ...

First it was Microsoft with its Health Vault, and then AOL's co-founder got into the game by offering Revolution Health, which offers online tools for managing personal health histories. It was only a matter of time before Google jumped on the bandwagon. Yesterday, Google announced a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic to give patients and ...

Early last month, columnists Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, and Patty Thierry Sheridan, MBA, RHIA, wrote about the impact of HIPAA on research (Hands on Help, Dec. 3, 2007). They discussed the confusion that still surrounds the privacy regulation as it relates to research and how legitimate research requests are denied because of ...