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In December 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released an extensive guidance outlining various aspects of the privacy portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). That follows a recent decision by HHS to place OCR in charge of enforcing HIPAAs privacy mandates.
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One of the problems facing providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will be how to deal with minors, including newborns.
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The first task in drafting and negotiating Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) documents is to understand the requirements for consent, business associates, and covered entities.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a Privacy Accountability Database to aid in tracking, reporting, and accounting the disclosures made from all CMS systems of records permitted by the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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A Frequently Asked Questions document about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule is posted on the Department of Health and Human Services web site.
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Health care risk managers have suffered from an image problem for too long, and 10 simple steps can greatly improve the way everyone else in your organization thinks of you, says Geri Amori, PhD, ARM, FASHRM, president of Communicating HealthCare, a risk management consulting firm in Shelby, VT, and past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
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A study at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics in Madison shows the hospital has reduced medication administration errors by 87% with the use of a hand-held wireless bar code scanner.
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Pennsylvanias hospitals continue to struggle with the medical professional liability insurance crisis, according to a new member survey conducted by The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).
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Tenet Healthcare Corporations claim that it considers Redding, CA, physicians as independent contractors, as opposed to hospital employees, will do nothing to lessen the companys exposure from a rapidly growing list of lawsuits filed by former cardiac surgery patients at Tenets two Redding-area hospitals, according to one of the nations leading mass torts attorneys.
