In December, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a request for information seeking input from the public in order to identify provisions of HIPAA that may impede value-based care or limit care coordination among individuals and covered entities, and which do not meaningfully contribute to protecting the privacy and security of protected health information.
Approximately 16,000 patients of Mind and Motion Developmental Centers of Georgia had their protected health information compromised after a ransomware attack on a server at the facility.
Q: A patient recently told me she was surprised to learn from another physician at our facility that her adult child had been prescribed a particular medication for high cholesterol. Her child is not a dependent adult under her care. Is it a HIPAA violation for a provider to discuss the care of non-dependent adult children with their parents?
Establishing an outpatient CDI program can have substantial benefits. Recently, an outpatient CDI review project demonstrated there were many documentation improvement opportunities at a large family practice/internal medicine physician clinic.
