In another HITECH milestone, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has posted a list of covered entities (CEs) that reported breaches affecting 500 or more individuals. The list, available to the public via OCR's Web site, fulfills an obligation outlined in last year's HITECH Act. CEs have been required to report such breaches since last ...

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 May, AHIMA public relations, called the Bill of Rights ''an extraordinary stride in patient ...

I love to toss off the headset and get a change of scenery, and find myself occasionally rummaging around other Advance boards to see what's up (did you even notice they've got like 243 magazines skewed toward different areas in health care?) Lately, we've also been getting crossover blogs here and as usual, I've found a way to pretty much ignore ...

The major news outlets have done stories on actress Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer. I watched part of her documentary and felt compassion for someone going through a horrible illness in public. The price of fame comes with a high cost. In addition to dealing with this illness, Ms. Fawcett has had to fight to keep her health information ...

When you see a document with a title such as Guidance Specifying the Technologies and Methodologies That Render Protected Health Information Unusable, Unreadable, or Indecipherable to Unauthorized Individuals for Purposes of the Breach Notification Requirements under Section 13402 of Title XIII (Health Information Technology for Economic and ...

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 the online testing company RealAge. RealAge, promoted by Dr. Mehmet Oz of ''The Oprah Winfrey ...

Medical transcription providers should be educating themselves on how the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill, is changing the way HIPAA regulations will apply to business associates. Up to this point, business ...

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 ...

So I know this is a little early and all, but I just want to express how excited I am for the AHIMA Convention in October.  The four of us who are staying together booked our flight and hotel in February, and yes I know how crazy early that is, but we could not wait!  I also just got done booking our transportation from the airport to ...