Patient Access and the Path to Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule generally requires HIPAA covered entities—health plans and most healthcare providers—to provide individuals, upon request, with access to protected health information (PHI) about them in one...
Preparing for HIPAA Changes in IT, HIM, Compliance and Privacy
Rita Bowen, vice president of privacy, compliance and HIM policy at MRO, a clinical data workflow solutions company, discusses how proposed new rules can impact healthcare provider organizations. View Full...
Enterprise-wide PHI Disclosure Management: What Risk Managers Need to Know
Managing demands for secure disclosure of protected health information (PHI) has become more complex as each department within a health care organization potentially represents a point of disclosure. Multiple disclosure points place organizations at risk for privacy...
Building New Policies and Procedures to Incorporate Telehealth
Over the past year, telehealth has expanded through support from federal and state measures intended to increase access during the pandemic. In February 2021, a bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced the Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act to the US...