Author: Srinivasan, Anil

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2006

As Web-based personal health record (PHR) systems grow in popularity, it is important that they be managed and maintained responsibly. Online PHRs must provide the same security and privacy controls required of other electronic systems that handle personal health information. This article pres....

Author: E-HIM Work Group on Maintaining the Legal EHR

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2005

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Tomes, Jonathan P.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

To avoid the improper destruction or alteration of records, HIM departments must follow a retention schedule, train personnel, and ensure that corrections leave original entries intact.
Although the legal concept known as spoliation of evidence has been a part of the American legal syste....

Author: Keating, Angie Singer

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2005

The unauthorized use of confidential or sensitive information contained on computer hard drives is a serious problem facing most healthcare organizations. Organizations that do not require proper hard-drive sanitation as part of their total information destruction program face regulatory viola....

Author: Quinsey, Carol Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2005

Securing the privacy of both protected health information and personal information should be a primary concern when personal computers have outlived their usefulness. Recycling or disposing of a computer safely can be a challenge.

It’s not enough to simply give an old computer....

Author: Johnson, Robert J.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2005

Major healthcare facilities generally choose to meet their document destruction needs through outsourcing. The certificate of destruction (COD) is virtually the universal documentation or audit trail in the outsourced security shredding world. It shows who destroyed what and when they did it.<....

Author: Friedman, Beth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2005

From banking to travel, consumers manage a variety of personal records online. Now providers are experimenting with several ways to give consumers more control over their health records.
Every day consumers log on to the Internet to access bank accounts, stock portfolios, and travel itin....

Author: Kohn, Deborah

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2004

Your healthcare facility is digitally capturing information at a staggering pace. But if a subpoena showed up tomorrow, could you produce the information you need?
While mounds of analog paper and film continue to overwhelm most healthcare organization record and film libraries, the fac....

Author: Amatayakul, Margret

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2004

Encryption is an addressable implementation specification under HIPAA’s access control and transmission security standards. Many providers are grappling with just how to address these specifications:
Is there a difference between the two specifications, and if so, what is the diff....

Author: Johnson, Robert J.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2004

Various types of insurance are vital to the healthcare industry to protect institutions, physicians, and patients. But what is the appropriate type of insurance to indemnify data destruction providers? This article will explain a misconception about insurance that may be putting both HIM prof....