Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes

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Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes

Post by packets » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:01 am

Is now time to get serious about information security? More capital please...Hope your practice got the federal incentive money; the cost to implement EHR's may have just gone up. Yikes!
"As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress enacted the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to broaden and increase HIPAA's scope of protecting the privacy and security of personal health information."
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes

Post by jordansparks » Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:32 am

That post seems kinda spammy.
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes

Post by packets » Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:10 am

jordansparks wrote:That post seems kinda spammy.
The post, news site, or video seems "spammy"?
The video I found very informative with respect to covered entities and their business partners all responsible for protecting PHI and the fact each can be separately audited. Watching the video reminded of the article below and fines incurred due to basically "fake" policies and supporting procedures.

"UCLA Health System Pays $865K to Settle HIPAA Violations"
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Re: Recent HIPAA/HITECH changes

Post by Hersheydmd » Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:04 am

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3pkor8e
Watched the video. Interesting. Not spammy.
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