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I'm
sorry, but helpful as these suggestions have been they don't go far enough. If
you want to eliminate your HIPAA risks altogether, you're just going to have to
get rid of your patients. You can't have individually identifiable health
information if you don't have individual
For those looking into email issues specifically, please see HealthyEmail,
www.healthyemail.org . It's a nonprofit, I'm on the board, and the point of
the exercise is to get policy and procedural tools out to support the
clinical (principally physician practice) use of email. The other advisors
are
Folks -
The "plain language" requirement for the NPP incorporates regulatory
requirements that include translation into other languages if they are a
material element of the population you serve. I did the research well over a
year ago so don't recall the citations, and don't have time to dig it u
Not
that knowing that is much help in figuring out what you need to do . .
.
John R. Christiansen Preston | Gates |
Ellis LLP 925
Fourth Avenue, Suite 2900 Seattle, Washington
98104 (Direct: 206.370.8118 (Cell:
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Overall, I think I like it.
HHS seems to have done a pretty good job of integrating it with the Privacy
Rule, conceptually, in use of terminology, and in terms of reorganizing the
codification (which won't really become helpful until it they are together
in the Code of Federal Regulations). A numb
First the Saskatchewan and TriWest class actions, now this.
Women win suit over medical records
By The Associated Press
Friday February 07, 2003; 11:00 AM
MORGANTOWN -- A jury has awarded $2.3 million to three women whose mental
health treatment records were not kept privat
On Tuesday I flagged a Canadian class action for privacy violation by theft
of hard drive and noted the same sort of incident had happened to TriWest in
the U.S. I thought the Canadian case was the first of these. Guess not.
Guess who else got sued?
Lawsuit accuses TriWest Healthcare of negligence
This would be covered by the general HIPAA civil penalties provision,
$100/violation to $25K annual max per "type of violation," on a no-fault
basis, presumably enforced via the OCR in a non-adversarial "we're here to
help" fashion. However, I was recently persuaded that it would also be
possible t
Who's
doing this?
<< Can
you guess what law schools are promoting courses in
successful litigation under HIPAA regulations? We have
at least one here in Florida I am aware of.>>
Please let me know, I'd
love to see the curriculum and figure out the holes in it, perhaps work up
articles
ssee, Inc. (615) 463-1612, Office (615)
279-1301, Facsimile http://www.xantushealthplan.com/hipaa/page3.html
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vor no lo distribuya.
Favor notificar al remitente del E-Mail a la dirección mostrada y elimine el
mensaje original. Gracias.
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Message-From:
Christiansen, John (SEA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January
16, 2003 7:09
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Hate
to say it, but I disagree: Under HIPAA a pharmacist's job is to establish and
comply with certain policies for privacy, security and electronic claims
processing. It is a pharmacist's *professional* obligation to avoid (or
mitigate) harm to individuals, and HIPAA is not intended to *int
The
magnitude of the crime does not trigger a change in legal treatment. 45 CFR
164.512(f)(5) permits CEs to disclose PHI to law enforcement if the CE
"believes in good faith constitutes evidence of criminal conduct that occurred
on the premises of the covered entity," and sub (6) permits pr
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Christiansen, John (SEA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:55
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Here is a good Privacy Issue that will cause problems
Robert
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I
think I need to question one of your assumptions, and your approach to this kind
of problem.
#1 the
assumption that: is not correct, and is
in fact dangerously incorrect.
HIPAA does not state
that principle anywhere. It does list a number of conditions under which PHI m
This was a very big issue in one small city where I spoke on HIPAA a couple
of years ago, because the chief of police () had recently been busted
for drug-seeking behavior - everybody wanted to know how it would play out
under HIPAA.
If I read this question right, what happened here was that
I can send you a copy of a presentation I did on employer compliance
obligations as plan sponsors, etc., if you like but we should do so
off-list. Let me know.
From: John R. Christiansen
Preston | Gates | Ellis LLP
701 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104
*Direct: 206.613.7118 - *Cell: 206.799.
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John:
Will you please provide me with a citation for the caselaw you refer
to below?
Thanks!
Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:54 PM
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