The 2009 HITECH Act created the breach reporting rule. The following will summarize the rule, paying specific attention to the modifications that were detailed in the Omnibus Rule of January 23, 2013.
The Mississippi State Department of Health in Jackson, Mississippi, recently notified 30,799 patients of an email breach that gave a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contractor unauthorized access to patient information, according to a press release
Case managers today face significant challenges when working with patients who abuse opioids. According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s 2016 figures, some 2 million Americans had a substance use disorder involving prescription pain medicine in 2015, and an additional 591,000 had a heroin use disorder.
This week's note from the instructor is the first article in a series reviewing the coverage, billing, and payment rules for swing bed services. This edition of the series focuses on the definition of swing bed services and general requirements hospitals must meet to provide covered swing bed services.
Q. Do laptops need to be encrypted if there is no PHI stored on them? Employees do use them to access PHI, but the PHI is stored remotely. We have a policy that states that employees are not allowed to save PHI to laptops.
