Your incident response plan should be in strict compliance with HITECH requirements, says Kate Borten, CISSP, CISM, president of The Marblehead Group in Marblehead, MA.
Q. We received a request under the California Public Records Act from the local newspaper for copies of incident reports of injuries to staff by psychiatric patients. County counsel stated that only patient information that is specifically made confidential by law can be redacted.
Hospitals and provider networks account for the highest number of breaches on the OCR list of entities reporting breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals, a new report indicates.
Now that fall is in the air, hospitals may feel a chill as Medicare implements the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) through the 2011 inpatient prospective payment system. Aspects include:
The transition to ICD-10 is not in any way the kind of transition we made from ICD-8 to ICD-9, nor is it a simple matter of training coders and installing a new encoder.
