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Preparing for HIPAA: Privacy and Security Issues to be Considered The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is imposing privacy and security regulations on health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers. Although not explicitly stated, this also includes medical schools and research institutions. For medical schools, HIPAA’s challenges are different from those of other healthcare organizations due to multiple roles of faculty as educator, researcher and clinician. Because so many people need access to different portions of patient health information (PHI), administration of privacy and security is difficult. Therefore, the privacy and security regulations focus on achieving data integrity, confidentiality, and availability through four main areas: administrative policies, physical safeguards, technical security services and technical security mechanisms.
04/15/2004
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E-mail Communication with Patients in the Wake of the HIPAA Final Security Rule Over the last decade, the popularity of e-mail communication between doctors and patients has risen steadily. The asynchronous nature of e-mail provides convenience and more effective use of time for both parties. Patients can now make appointments or get prescriptions renewed without spending idle time waiting in lines at the doctor’s office or on the phone. Physicians and their staffs can provide lab results or patient follow up more efficiently. E-mail also provides an electronic “paper trail” of such transactions that can be maintained in the patient’s medical record. This paper will explore the issues that the HIPAA regulations raise with doctor/patient e-mail communications and will discuss some possible solutions.
04/15/2004
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Solving HealthCare’s eMail Security Problem While healthcare organizations have come to depend heavily on electronic mail, they do so without a significant email security infrastructure. New Federal law and regulation place new obligations on the organizations to either secure their email systems or drastically restrict their use. This paper discusses email security in a healthcare context. The paper considers and recommends solutions to the healthcare organization’s problem in securing its mail. Because email encryption will soon be a categorical requirement for healthcare organizations, email encryption is discussed in some detail. The paper describes details and benefits of domain level encryption model and considers how PKI is best deployed to support secure electronic mail.
04/05/2004
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HIPAA Security Rule: what it is & how to comply with it Thousands of US organizations must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. The Security Rule is a key part of HIPAA -- federal legislation that was passed into law in August 1996. The overall purpose of the act is to enable better access to health insurance, reduce fraud and abuse, and lower the overall cost of health care in the United States.
By Steven Weil , 03/02/2004
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HIPAA-compliant configuration guidelines for Information Security in a Medical Center Environment In Part 1, this document will deal with the HIPAA requirements for implementation of an assessment and certification process for primary healthcare
02/18/2004
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HIPAA Security Compliance Project – Identification of Logging and Auditing Requirements This discussion will outline a project “plan of attack” for a covered entity to identify and address the electronic logging and auditing requirements within the Final HIPAA Security Rule.
02/18/2004
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Getting Started: The Impacts of Privacy and Security Under HIPAA The paper describes how the Agency established an on-going, cost-effective security program integrated with current Agency business practices.
02/18/2004
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Case Study in Implementing Security for HIPAA Privacy Compliance “In the context of HIPAA, there is no privacy without security. The HIPAA Privacy Regulation mandates that security safeguards be in place to protect privacy
02/18/2004
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