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Little Breaches: OCR Releases First “Small Breach” Data
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
The Office for Civil Rights has been publicly reporting incidents of large-scale health data breaches since early 2010, but last month it reported to Congress numbers that the industry has only guessed at to date-the reports it has received of breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals.
Managing a Patient’s Right to Request Restrictions of Disclosures to Health Plans
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2014
Covered entities should already have in place the mechanisms for limiting PHI under minimum necessary policies and procedures. This Practice Brief provides guidance to assist organizations in complying with the 2013 HITECH-HIPAA Omnibus Rule’s new disclosure restriction requirements.
Many Roads to Data Exchange
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2010
Federal dollars are spurring efforts for health information exchange, but to say there is more than one approach is an understatement. Providers and payers are taking local, state, regional, and federal routes in search of connected healthcare.
The last year has seen tremendous excit....
Meaningful Use and Clinical Documentation
Author: Benson, Sean
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2011
Little direct attention has been paid to clinical documentation in the context of meaningful use. Discussion and debate instead focused on electronic health records (EHRs), computerized physician order entry, and other health IT systems.
However, the electronic capture and exchange....
Meaningful Use and EHR Certification
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: September 02, 2010
Meaningful Use and EHR Certification
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: February 03, 2010
Feb 03, 2010 03:35 pm
AHIMA Meaningful Use White Paper Series
Paper no. 4
Preceding papers in this series have reviewed requirements within the notice of proposed rulemaking on meaningful use, published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Jan....
Meaningful Use and HIPAA Privacy and Security – Meeting the Requirements
Author: Sheldon-Dean, Jim
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
In order to receive funding for the adoption of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) under the HITECH Act1, entities, among other requirements, must attest that they meet all required objectives published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the repo....
Meaningful Use Attestations among US Hospitals: The Growing Rural-Urban Divide
Author: Sandefer, Ryan; Marc, David; Kleeberg, Paul
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: April 2015
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess EHR Incentive Program attestations of eligible US hospitals across geography and hospital type. The proportions of attestations were compared between metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural hospitals and by whether a hospital was crit....
Meaningful Use CMS Proposed Rule Overview
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy
Publication Date: January 06, 2010
Meaningful Use—Final at Last: Final Rule Adds Flexibility to Objectives, Eases Measures
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
The final rule on the EHR incentive plan offers more "flexibility and choice" than the daunting proposed rule, adjusting the objectives and scaling back some of the measures. Now interested providers just need to figure out how to get with the program.
After perhaps the longest six m....
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