Rural Patient Privacy resources related to rural health and human services, with information provided by the Rural Assistance Center Copyright 2009 Rural Assistance Center http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/legislation/patientprivacy.php The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule with request for comments last week to strengthen its enforcement of the rules promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12468 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:19:50 CST http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12468 This seventeenth and final chapter of "Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics", serves as a bibliography of articles, journals, and Web sites that contain information about the theory and practice of ethics in rural health care. -- Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-17.pdf Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:11:57 CST http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-17.pdf This fifteenth chapter of "Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics", presents strategies that health care professionals can explore to help anticipate, eliminate ethics conflicts, enhance the quality of care, and decrease the negative impact of such conflicts. -- Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-15.pdf Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:50:43 CST http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-15.pdf Comments are being requested by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the adoption of this interim final rule to conform the enforcement regulations promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to the effective statutory revisions made pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-26203.htm Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:54:10 CST http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-26203.htm This tenth chapter of "Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics", discusses the negative perception associated with some illnesses and how health care providers can serve as patient advocates in counteracting stigma by educating the public and protecting patient privacy. -- Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-10.pdf Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:01:58 CST http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-10.pdf This seventh chapter of "Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics", explores the ethical challenges involving privacy and confidentiality in rural health care relationships due to overlapping relationships and familiarity with patients and communities. -- Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-07.pdf Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:41:19 CST http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-07.pdf This fifth chapter of "Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics", explores potential ethics issues in the rural patient-provider relationship, approaches and methods for resolving issues, plus steps that rural health care providers can take to anticipate and prepare for ethics conflicts. -- Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-05.pdf Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:10:38 CST http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/chapter-05.pdf Describes how HIPAA right to access rules apply to health information technology and electronic health records (EHRs). -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/healthit/eaccess.pdf Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:17:48 CST http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/healthit/eaccess.pdf Contains resources designed to assist interested parties with implementation of the practices required by the Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA and to foster public education about the impact of HIPAA. Formed through an alliance of a number of Wisconsin health care organizations, this resource is of particular interest to residents of the state but contains information designed for all users. http://hipaacow.org Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:43:43 CST http://hipaacow.org Examines key privacy and security issues that RHIOs encounter, the policies and practices they adopt to manage these issues, and common emerging strategies. -- California HealthCare Foundation http://www.chcf.org/documents/chronicdisease/RHIOPrivacySecurity.pdf Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:46:01 CST http://www.chcf.org/documents/chronicdisease/RHIOPrivacySecurity.pdf Session from the September 2006 conference titled Health Information Technology: A Rural Provider's Roadmap to Quality. Discusses current privacy and security issues from a multitude of perspectives (provider, patient, health information exchange) and what is on the horizon. Speaks to rural challenges and opportunities in security and privacy, and how to meld HIPAA and HIT. http://www.raconline.org/HIT_Conf2006/Sermons_Privacy.pdf Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:09:50 CST http://www.raconline.org/HIT_Conf2006/Sermons_Privacy.pdf Works to enforce the HIPAA Privacy Rule. An agency of the Department of Health & Human Services. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ Coordinates the development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the United States. Provides information on the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel which assists in the development of the U.S. Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) by addressing issues such as privacy and security within a shared healthcare information system. http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hisb/hitsp.aspx?menuid=3 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hisb/hitsp.aspx?menuid=3 Provides information on the final rules for the imposition of civil money penalties on entities that violate rules adopted by the Secretary to implement the Administrative Simplificationprovisions of the HIPAA Act. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Enforcement/Downloads/EnforcementRule.pdf Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Enforcement/Downloads/EnforcementRule.pdf Provides information on HIPAA complaints, civil monetary penalties, and general enforcement information. -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/enforcement/01_overview.asp? Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.cms.hhs.gov/enforcement/01_overview.asp? Presents avenues of information flow that could apply to emergency preparedness activities. Focuses on the source of the information being disclosed, to whom, and the purpose of the information being disclosed. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/emergency/decisiontoolintro.html Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/emergency/decisiontoolintro.html Overviews the National Provider Identifier (NPI) requirements. Includes links to resources and additional information. The purpose of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) is to uniquely identify a health care provider in standard transactions, such as health care claims. -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/01_overview.asp Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/01_overview.asp Contains various resources on HIPAA administrative simplification, including a resource directory, general information, and information on code sets and standards. -- Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange http://www.wedi.org/snip/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.wedi.org/snip/