Author: Seidman, Joshua J

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2009

Getting a return on health IT investment will require that patients receive information that helps them improve their health.

At a late February government affairs retreat of the eHealth Initiative (eHI), shortly after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),....

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Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

Many health information management (HIM) experts have wondered whether there is protected health information (PHI) on the black market. In short, the answer is “yes.” According to a 2012 Ponemon Institute study, 90 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have had at least....

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Source: AHIMA Today

Publication Date: October 07, 2009

This is a time that many have hoped and wished for,” David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health information technology, said during Tuesday’s general session. Blumenthal gave the audience an overview of current federal initiatives in health information technology and the contrib....

Author: Dowling, Alan F.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2010

Imagine yourself as a well-trained professional with an active role in the air travel industry in the early 1950s-the dawn of commercial jet travel. Until now, commercial air travel meant propellers and piston-powered engines. The technology that seemed so impressive just a few years before wa....

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: August 24, 2009

Author: Adler, M. Peter

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: April 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), previously known as the stimulus bill, offers new challenges to health information privacy professionals. Today guest author Peter Adler, attorney at law for Pepper Hamilton LLP, looks at new provisions requiring organizations to provide notice....

Author: Bowen, Rita K.

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: April 2013

The HIPAA Omnibus Rule, the new Final Rule modifying HIPAA, was published in the Federal Register on January 25, 2013. The amended rule went into effect on March 26 and full compliance is expected by September 23. For HIM professionals, the most far-reaching of the changes to HIPAA is that....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2012

Last summer the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT heard repeatedly from providers and vendors that they would not have time to prepare for stage 2 of the meaningful use program. With a final rule on stage 2 not expected until summer 2012, vendors and hospitals did not see how th....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: April 2014

The HITECH-HIPAA Final Rule has changed the way healthcare organizations do business, and those with seats in the C-suite can’t afford to stay out of the weeds with the new regulations.


Daniel Solove, founder of the HIPAA training firm TeachPrivacy, and law professor at....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2009

In California, teasing apart state and federal breach notification laws highlights the challenges organizations everywhere face in determining their responsibilities under ARRA’s new privacy regulations.

Within healthcare organizations, the temptation for some staff can be great: wh....