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- Confidentiality mandate is next major health care hurdle
Author/editor: Alan Moorse
Date: March 27, 2000
From the Capitol District Business Review. The issue at hand is coming into compliance with two sections of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as HIPAA, that will mandate security measures to preserve the confidentiality of medical records and standardize electronic data interchange (EDI) among providers, insurers and government agencies.
- Health Information Privacy Protection: Crisis or Common Sense?
Author/editor: Joanne K. Kumekawa, BA, MBA
Date: September 30, 2001
From Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, this paper briefly touches upon new sweeping federal privacy standards mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The article outlines who and what is covered under the new rules, considers how practitioners can approach compliance with common sense, addresses concerns related to risk management, discusses consumer health privacy issues, and notes the difficulty of evaluating these rules and regulations. The article also looks at some unique privacy issues facing telemedicine and telehealth practitioners.
- HHS Issues Final Privacy Rule
Author/editor: not listed
Date: not listed
From Arent Fox E-Health News and Alerts, President Clinton announced on December 20, 2000 a sweeping new federal regulation designed to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information contained in a patient’s medical record.
- Private lessons
Author/editor: Tyler Chin
Date: March 27, 2000
From AMNews, a handy guide for the physician who wants to know everything about Internet privacy but is afraid to ask.
- Securing patient privacy
Author/editor: Brian Fonseca
Date: October 2, 2001
From CNN.com, As medical professionals move their daily practices further and further into the electronic world, so too has the mandate grown to protect the privacy of patient information. U.S. government regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) hold health care facilities responsible for bringing legacy IT systems into stringent compliance and ensuring the security of patient records.
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