Time is a valuable commodity, especially when it comes to your health. Unfortunately, many people have wasted hours in waiting rooms at hospitals across the country.
Q: Some organizations consider any medical record number to be PHI. Others believe the medical record number is not a personal identifier—unless the security number is the medical record number—because anyone who would intercept that number would have no way of identifying the patient based on the number alone.
Hospitals can make better use of their electronic health record (EHR) system’s audit functions not only to guard patient privacy but also to help prevent healthcare fraud, according to a new HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report.
