Articles Tagged With: Privacy
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Online Privacy Threats Increasing with More Internet Use
Online threats to patient privacy are increasing as healthcare organizations rely more on technology to interact with patients. Scammers are looking for new opportunities.
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Avoid Most Common HIPAA Violations With Best Practices, Education
HIPAA breaches can happen even to the best prepared healthcare organizations, but knowing the most common failings can improve your chances of staying in the good graces of the Office for Civil Rights.
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Drug Diversion Sting Goes Wrong And Privacy Is Questioned
A California hospital was trying to do the right thing when it set up a video camera to catch drug diversion, but it may have ended up violating patient privacy when the cameras recorded patient care and explicit images. -
Hospital Tried to Catch a Drug Diverter, But Is Sued Over Tapes of Women Giving Birth
Lawsuit says the hospital recorded 15,000 videos and that the videos were watched by security guards. -
Accidental phone call creates HIPAA quandary for employees
The typical requests for patient information are easy to understand for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but staff members will face unusual situations that test their confidence and prompt them to play it safe by not disclosing.
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Create ‘culture of privacy’ in patient access areas
To prevent potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, “we need to, first, cultivate a culture of privacy within the patient access staff,” says Julie Johnson, CHAM, FHAM, director of patient access and Health Information Management and HIPAA privacy officer at Mount Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, AZ.
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Common registration practices cause big problems with HIPAA
“Mr. Bob Jones? Your colonoscopy will take place in 15 minutes.”
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No date yet for OCR’s HIPAA audits
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) still has not set a date for when the next round of HIPAA audits, originally planned for fall 2014, will take place.
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Huge increase in hacking of computer systems
Hackers are stealing data from providers at an astounding rate, which reflects the fact that information from healthcare records are worth far more on the black market than credit card numbers.
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Privacy rule lists these 18 research identifiers