Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: July 01, 2016

One of the most important objectives of the HIPAA Privacy Rule—and the HITECH Act in particular—was to ensure that consumers have easy and affordable access to their own protected health information. The regulations also clarified how and when medical information about a patien....

Author: Taffel, Bruce H.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 05, 2009

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To bring the types of sustainable quality improvements and operating efficiencies that transform patient care into the practice environment, physicians must have tools that deliver clinically relevant information at the point of care. The HITECH provisions in the American Recove....

Author: Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2009

Within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the section known as the HITECH Act provides a combination of incentives and penalties to reduce healthcare costs by automating healthcare records and streamlining health IT. It also broadens the definition of what healthcare information must....

Author: Zwyiak, Walt; Drazen, Erica; Computer Sciences Corporation

Source: External web site

Publication Date: February 15, 2010

The question for hospitals is becoming not whether but how to initiate integrated EHR use within their communities.

Author: Unger, Melissa D; Aldrich, Alison M; Hefner, Jennifer L; Rizer, Milisa K

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2014

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Successfully reporting meaningful use of electronic health records to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can be a challenging process, particularly for healthcare organizations with large numbers of eligible professionals. This case report describes a successf....

Author: Brocato, Lori; Emery, Steven; McDavid, Jan P

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2011

A mix of new regulations and initiatives-with audits and attestations in their wake-have put a new focus on compliance in physician practices and clinics.

Recovery audits, breach notification regulations, and modifications to the HIPAA privacy rule are forcing rapid workflo....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2010

The healthcare industry and HIM profession have spent much of 2010 engaged in proposed regulations, comments, and final regulations related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act. There will be more to come. We have adapted to new Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) requi....

Author: Tomes, Jonathan P.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2012

HHS's renewed interest in auditing for compliance is a good reminder to covered entities to ensure their privacy and security programs are up to date.

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) announcement of a new program to audit compliance with the HIPAA priva....

Author: Rulon, Vera

Source: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy

Publication Date: July 22, 2009

Author: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: September 01, 2009