HIPAA Privacy Complaints Drop by 35% in November
December 1st, 2008
OCR said it received only 421 complaints in its HIPAA privacy enforcement program in November 2008 for a total of 40,669 complaints since the...
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CMS criticized for lax enforcement of HIPAA security rules
November 24th, 2008
Agency officials disputed the OIG findings but agreed to enhance compliance-assurance activities.
… Patients’ privacy depends on the security of health information, said Deborah C....
Reinstate e-health privacy
November 20th, 2008
Most people believe the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects the privacy of health information.
Unfortunately, that is a myth....
Case Western Reserve University professors call for regulation of electronic health records
October 30th, 2008
Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR) have led to a call...
Response to: Will Technology Cure Health Care — Or Kill It?
October 22nd, 2008
Giving your genome to a for-profit corporation for testing today is a very dangerous act for the following reasons:
1) Americans NO longer have the...
Your own health ID number
October 20th, 2008
It’s been a decade since federal legislation called for the creation of a unique patient identifier — a number carried by each American linking...
PHR Privacy Questions Get Tougher When Criminal Justice System Involved
October 14th, 2008
The Kabuki we see in the transition to electronic health records obscures two obvious and fundamental issues: The nature of the confidentiality privilege for...
The tortuous path of the HIPAA privacy provision
October 13th, 2008
“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I may see or hear in the lives of men which...
Administration News | HHS Office Resolves More Than Half of HIPAA Complaints Without Investigation
September 19th, 2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the...
HIPAA privacy regulations get some teeth: Be prepared
September 17th, 2008
Watch out folks, it’s finally happened. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has levied the first penalties against a healthcare agency....