health privacy

Health Care Providers? Ready to Go HITECH?

June 18, 2009
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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act includes privacy and security requirements that extend beyond HIPAA. The consequences for breach also go to a whole new level. Are you ready for new definitions of “Personal Health Information”? Do you know about the new breach notification requirements, which have lower thresholds...

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Patient’s Guide to HIPAA

March 31, 2009
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If you’ve been to see a doctor at any time during the last few years, you’ve no doubt been required to sign new forms related to your privacy. Often they’re long, complicated, and in 7 point font. If it’s a new doctor, you may not even have noticed that form in the deluge of...

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