Don’t show me anything, don’t send me anything, don’t even speak to me. It’s the only way I can think of to avoid the growing liabilities associated with failure to secure personal information. Recent guidance from federal HIPAA regulators makes information security optional for patients the law was written to protect. Before you wander off, information…
Just when you thought you were done with HIPAA, the final rules get published. Now you must amend your notice of privacy practices as well as your policies and procedures (dust off the binder) and you must provide new training to staff. You have eight months in which to get your HIPAA house in order.…
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just proposed new regulations designed to fulfill the amendments made to HIPAA last year when the economic stimulus act (ARRA) was passed by Congress. The separate Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was grafted onto ARRA. Recall that among the HIPAA amendments…
