In
this issue
Envision offers HIPAA and Compliance programs
When it comes to private health information, the question now
becomes a legal one as well as an ethical one. Until now, privacy
and confidentiality has not been adequately protected. Envision,
Inc. strives to offer you the most complete educational tools to
help you become compliant with the new regulations.
Privacy
& Confidentiality: New HIPAA Regulations
Compliance
Issues in Health Care: Doing the Right Thing
INTERESTING NEWS
A
Question of Medical Privacy
Microsoft
Settles Privacy Complaint With FTC
HHS
Issues Privacy Rules for Use of Health Records - Industry Pleased,
Patient Advocates Not
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Physicians Duty to Keep their Patients' Confidences
Best
Hospitals
RESOURCES AND TIPS
Check out these
tips given by your collegues on the latest issues and concerns.
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HHS Final Changes to Privacy Rule!!
We are very
excited about our third edition! In this issue, you will find
interesting news in the industry, great resources and tips,
and information on the hottest topic of today....HIPAA.
We have links to some of the most current information and even
a HIPAA Regulations and Compliance Calendar.
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current news and tips on a chosen subject.
The next
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Control. We'd like to invite you to submit your ideas to
highlight in the Resource and Tips section of the Infection Control
edition, to be delivered in October.
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HHS Final Changes to Privacy Rule
That Protect Privacy, Access to Care
 HHS Secretary Tommy G.
Thompson issues final changes to HHS' health privacy
regulations to ensure strong privacy protections while
correcting unintended consequences that threatened patients'
access to quality health care. The Final Changes to the
Privacy Rule have been posted in the Federal Register.
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Will your State's Privacy Law be superceded by
HIPAA?
 Careful interpretation
required: Health plans operating in multiple states have a
challenge sorting out where the federal law trumps state
statues. With the deadline for complying with the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act approaching, it's
important to compare the federal statute to state laws.
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Story...
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Revised disclosure standard presents new compliance
challenges
 Recent changes to the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations'
RI.1.2.2 standard, which is in the patient rights and
organization ethics chapter, may appear to make it easier for
health care providers to comply by lessening the obligation to
tell patients and families of adverse events. That is not....
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on...
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HIPAA True or False Quiz
 The top 15 Privacy Concerns
are discussed in this True or False quiz from the Department
of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights.
Specific concerns of Patients, Physicians, Hospitals,
Insurers, Family Members as well as the general public are
addressed in this quiz.
See
how much you know...
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