Competing perspectives and priorities can lead CDI programs down the wrong path. Understand how differences in professional backgrounds and approaches to documentation can cause conflict in CDI.
This month's Q&A answers to readers' questions on collecting payment, contacting physicians, overhearing medical examinations in the emergency department, and discussing the health of adult children.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced last week that they have updated the Security Risk Assessment tool with improved functionality to assess risks to protected health information.
Q: Are we required to keep copies of a former patient’s records after transferring the records to the patient’s new doctor? If we do, are we allowed to charge for copies now that the patient is no longer “our” patient?
