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Source: External web site
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
Enabling HIE While Protecting Privacy: An Overview of State Legislative Approaches
Author: Mertz, Kory
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2009
States view health IT as a key component of their efforts to improve healthcare, and in recent years they have made significant efforts to address the challenges to its implementation. From 2007 to 2008, state legislatures introduced more than 380 bills with provisions relating to health IT. O....
Testing Health Record Banking
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2009
Washington State’s experiment in consumer-controlled health records has moved into a pilot phase, transforming the health record banking model from theory to testing. In March the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) announced the launch of three pilot sites that will try out the....
Sequestering EHR Data in IT Systems
Author: Miaoulis, William M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2009
There can be three situations under which healthcare organizations may need to sequester (or segregate) certain data within a medical record: placing a legal hold in connection with litigation, limiting disclosures of a record pursuant to a request by a patient, and restricting access to sensi....
HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access and Health Information Technology
Author: U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; U.S. Office for Civil Rights
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: December 16, 2008
Help in Setting Access Controls: Using the HL7 RBAC Healthcare Permission Catalog to Reduce Data Breaches
Author: Amatayakul, Margret
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2008
Healthcare providers are looking for ways to reduce the risk of data breaches; however, tighter access controls that would help thwart inappropriate internal access to protected health information have been challenging to implement. Health Level Seven’s RBAC Healthcare Permission Cat....
Jumpstarting Access to Personal Information with Rights-based Legislation
Author: Bernstein, William
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2008
Providing consumers access to their health information seems like a simple concept. In reality, it is fraught with challenges. Records are still largely in paper form, and gaining access to them means contacting multiple parties and paying significant fees. Even when records are in electronic....
Metadata You Need: Determining What Must Be Collected and Retained
Author: Trites, Patricia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2008
Metadata are not inherently good or bad, they just are. Metadata have been defined as “data about data.”1 They can be further described as the “who, what, where, and when” of electronic documents.2 Their importance depends on who is viewing the information—promine....
Storage Media Profiles and Health Record Retention Practice Patterns in Acute Care Hospitals
Author: Rinehart-Thompson, Laurie A.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: June 2008
Storage Solution: A Plan for Paper in the Transition to Electronic Document Management
Author: Grzybowski, Darice
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2008
For Mercy Health Partners, solving its paper records storage needs was a sound first step in achieving its long-range health IT plans.
Mercy Health Partners, part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners group, knew it couldn’t put the electronic cart before the paper horse.
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