Image by purpleslog via Flickr By Mary Mosquera Last year’s HITECH Act toughened the rules and enforcement penalties health information handlers must follow to protect patient privacy. Under the new policy regime, providers will have to pay more attention to the confidentiality and safety of patient information as they move more of their operations toward […]
How ARRA and HITECH provisions affect HIPAA compliance AIS reported taht the new HITECH Act requires hospitals, providers, health plans and other HIPAA covered entities (CEs) to meet a February 2010 deadline for revising their business associate (BA) agreements. New language in BA amendments should require BAs to comply with (a) the HIPAA Security Rule,(b) […]
HIPAA Plain and Simple How ARRA and HITECH provisions will affect HIPAA compliance. We will highlight the changes to HIPAA due to these new provisions and discuss a possible solution, how to comply with these new HIPAA security and privacy requirements. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed into a law on […]
