One task that almost every healthcare organization is going to have to tackle to comply with the HIPAA omnibus final rule is amending its Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP).
If many acute care hospitals struggle to protect patient privacy, long-term care organizations face their own challenges in ensuring the privacy of residents who live in their nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule de-identification standard-Section 164.514(a)-includes two methods by which health information can be designated as de-identified: expert determination and safe harbor.
