Updated CoP reflect privacy, security, EHRs, and more
HIM Connection, January 27, 2009
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EHRs, patient safety, privacy, and security are among the common themes in official updates to the Conditions of Participation (CoP) that CMS released October 17, 2008, in Transmittal 37. This transmittal highlights various amended regulations and survey and certification policy issuances that CMS published throughout 2008.
Editor’s note: For more information about the CoP or to purchase a copy of this article for $10, click here. Subscribers to Medical Records Briefing have access to this article in the February issue of the newsletter.
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