Author: Dinh, Angela K.

Source: AHIMA recognition week resources

Publication Date: April 13, 2009

Author: Morper, Mike

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2014

Admissions and discharge processes can be rife with vulnerabilities and potential HIPAA violations. It is important to address security vulnerabilities and potential compliance problems in the patient admissions and discharge processes. A focus on file destination control, encryption, aut....

Author: Coleman, Johnathan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2013

Not all protected health information (PHI) is created equally. Some health data requires special handling according to law, organizational policies, or patient preferences. For appropriate sharing of health information to occur, a patient must trust that a provider organization will proper....

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....

Author: Hanken, Mary Alice

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: January 02, 2000

The confidentiality and security of individually identifiable health information is a global issue. As technology, electronic commerce, and the use of electronic databases expand, we are challenged on a personal and organizational level to cope with the unique privacy and security issues asso....

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2015

Now that the new year is well underway, most of us have probably settled on our resolutions and are working hard to achieve them. Hopefully both ICD-10-CM/PCS preparation and the “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program are high on the list of priorities for healthcare providers.

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Author: Downing, Katherine

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2014

On January 25, 2013, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published the long-awaited HITECH-HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule in the Federal Register. As anticipated, the Omnibus Rule includes some of the most significant changes to patient priva....

Author: Brinda, Danika

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2016

Stories about workforce members inappropriately accessing health information continue to plague the Department of Health and Human Services’ Data Breach Portal—which lists US provider data breaches that affect more than 500 individuals. Recently two data breaches reported on th....

Author: Hughes, Gwen

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2002

The many exceptions to the HIPAA privacy rule’s accounting of disclosures standard make it difficult to determine what must be tracked. Although the rule gives patients the right to receive an accounting of disclosures of their health information, it lists several exceptions. This article....

Author: Ross, Bruce

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: March 02, 2000

Smart cards are a peculiar subject when it comes to healthcare in the United States. They are viewed as everything from an up-andcoming product to an inscrutable and hard to integrate backwater technology. Today, all that is rapidly changing. As shown by its adoption by Microsoft, Sun Micro,....