Tips from this month's issue
We ask one BOH advisory board member and columnist to answer some questions about how the roles of CEs and BAs have changed over the years.
Q: Our organization does not support the use of USB drives. Is that typical?
Rick Ensenbach, CISSP-ISSMP, CISA, CISM, CCSFP, has one word for the HIPAA breach posted to OCR's wall of shame at the close of 2013: depressing.
Q: I am a registered nurse who received treatment for a health problem in the ED of the hospital that employs me.
If an ambulance that is not affiliated with our organization transports a patient to our facility, can we give them PHI to use for their billing? Do we need the patient's written authorization?
