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HIPAA "The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information" known as the Privacy Rule:

  • Became effective April 14, 2001, with full compliance required by April 14, 2003 for covered entities (small health plans have until 4/14/04).

What is the Privacy Rule?

As required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Privacy Rule covers health plans, health care clearing-houses, and those health care providers who conduct certain financial and administrative transactions electronically.

The Privacy Rule for the first time creates national standards to protect individuals’ personal health information and gives patients increased access to their medical records.

  • It gives patients more control over their health information.

  • It set boundaries on the use and release of health records.

  • It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.

  • It holds violators accountable, with civil and criminal penalties that can be imposed if they violate patients’ privacy rights

  • It strikes a balance when public responsibility requires disclosure of some forms of data – for example, to protect public health.

For patients – it means being able to make informed choices when seeking care and 5reimbursement for care based on how personal health information may be used.

  • It enables patients to find out how their information may be used and what disclosures of their information have been made.

  • It generally limits release of information to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure.

  • It gives patients rights to examine and obtain a copy of their own health records and request corrections.

Click here for more on the Privacy Rule

To download the latest Privacy Rule (8/14/02 final changes) for our download page (Adobe "pdf" file)

Privacy Rule Fact Sheet (download)

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Contact Personal Technology Enterprises for more information on the HIPAA-related Privacy Rule compliance, risk assessment, training, and general technology products and services available.

For those in Connecticut, call to arrange for a free risk analysis at your location.

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As so many companies and organizations find themselves today, HIPAA compliance is requiring extensive resource allocation - both financial & personnel.

Personal Technology Enterprises is here to help you off-load or reduce the internal resource requirements to meet the stringent HIPAA requirements for securing the personally identifiable information of every health services patient and client.
 

 

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