AHIMA called on Congress to support legislation to ensure healthcare professionals have access to their patients’ entire medical history – a move that could help address the opioid crisis in the US while maintaining the privacy and security of patient information.
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By Jonathan Nguyen-Duy – Healthcare has long been a regulated space due to the sensitive personal information collected and stored. Top of mind when thinking of healthcare regulations is HIPAA, which provides comprehensive and mandatory standards for ensuring the security and privacy of PHI.
By Matt Fisher – Not a day goes by (or many posts on The Pulse Blog) without a discussion of the rapid increase in data breaches impacting the healthcare industry. Information and statistics in this regard are inescapable.
By Grant Elliott – Are you considering HITRUST but haven’t yet put your HIPAA house in order? That’s similar to starting college when you’ve not yet earned your high school diploma. While both HIPAA and HITRUST share the common goal of protecting healthcare data and personal health information (PHI), they differ in very fundamental ways.
By Matt Fisher – Stop if you’ve heard either of these or some other variation before: I can’t tell you anything about that patient because of HIPAA or I can’t give you a copy of your medical records because of HIPAA or HIPAA doesn’t let me say anything.
Part 2 of my interview with Carl Kunkleman, the co-founder and senior vice president of ClearDATA, specifically about why small and community hospitals struggle with conducing a security risk analysis. Here is part 2 of the interview.
I had an opportunity to talk with Carl Kunkleman, the co-founder and senior vice president of ClearDATA, specifically about why small and community hospitals struggle with conducing a security risk analysis. Here is part I of the interview.
By Matt Fisher – What is the response when an individual submits a request to receive access to their medical record? The response can often be one of frustration over the time and effort that will go into compiling the record in response to the request.