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EHR Accounting of Disclosures Rule Close to Publication

The Department of Health & Human Services recently pushed forward a HITECH-required proposed rule on accounting of disclosures of EHRs. The rule will lay the foundation for what healthcare providers will be...

CMS Unveils "esMD" Electronic Record Submission System

Each year the Medicare program makes billions of dollars in estimated improper payments. CMS employs several types of Review Contractors to measure, prevent, identify, and correct these improper...

Blood on Medical Records

Many have asked lately, the following question: What is your recommendation for dealing with medical records contaminated with dried blood? Under OSHA, you first want to determine whether there is a work...

HITECH Tips for Your Beginner Staff: Disclosure of PHI

The HITECH Act modifies the HIPAA Privacy Rule requirement so that covered entities will be complying if the PHI access, use, and disclosure are limited to either the minimum necessary or a "limited data set." The...

Accounting for Uses and Disclosures of PHI

Are you remembering to account for the disclosures of PHI? Some healthcare providers are not compliant with this part of the Privacy Rule. Under HIPAA Privacy and as outlined on the NPP, the patient has many...

OCR Comments on HIPAA HITECH Rules to be Released in 2011

A senior official with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said recently that the enforcer of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule plans to release final rules regarding HITECH and HIPAA next year. He stated that...

First Certifiers of EHR Systems and Technology are Named

The Chicago-based Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), and the Drummond Group Inc. (DGI) of Austin, TX, were recently named as the first official certifiers of EHR technology....

EHR Incentives Registration

Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the availability of registration for the Medicare and Medicaid...

Are Safety Needles Really Required?

Some medical offices are of the opinion that the practice of using safe needles is a bother. What does OSHA say? The use of safety needles is not optional, and the employer is responsible to ensure their use...

Retention of Material Safety Data Sheets

Recently, many offices have inquired about the duration of Material Safety Data Sheets ("MSDS") that need to be kept for products that are no longer used. Just as a reminder, you do not need to keep MSDS files for...