Learn from other healthcare organizations' mistakes; Review the top breaches of 2009 and how you can prevent the same at your facility
Briefings on HIPAA, January 1, 2010
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Briefings on HIPAA.
Numerous organizations made it into the headlines in 2009 for failing to protect patients' privacy information. Those stories and the lessons they provide can help other healthcare organizations avoid finding themselves as front-page news, says Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CPHS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS, president of Margret\A Consulting in Schaumburg, IL.
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Briefings on HIPAA.
Related Products
-
Guide to HIPAA Auditing, Second Edition
This new edition of a best-selling book delivers the hands-on tools and guidance you need to conduct effective in-house...
-
h-mail, Fourth Edition
HCPro is back with the fourth edition of a HIPAA training classic. Continuing the excellence of the earlier editions...
-
Privacy, Security and You
Here's the one tool you need to train staff on both the HIPAA privacy and security rules as well as changes that have come...
-
OCR Audit Readiness: Prepare for HIPAA Privacy and Security Inspections
This 90-minute audio conference helps you identify weaknesses at your organization. Our expert speakers give you strategies...
-
Social Media and HIPAA Compliance: Balancing the Risks and Opportunities
During this 90-minute audio conference, our privacy and security experts show you how to establish a social media strategy...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase
- E-mailed
-
- CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Q&A: Bill blood administration the same way for inpatient and outpatient accounts
- Q&A: A second look at encephalopathy as integral to seizures/CVA
- Performing a SWOT analysis
- Leadership training for charge nurses
- Helping Charge Nurses understand their leadership role (Part 2 of 3)
- Developing a Fall-Prevention Program
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding tip: Watch for different codes for SI joint injections
- Searched