Electronic Prescribing and HIPAA Privacy Regulation

Electronic Medical Records, HIPAA, and Patient Privacy

The continued growth of healthcare information systems (HCIS) promises to improve quality of care, lower costs, and streamline the entire healthcare system. But the resulting dependence on electronic medical records (EMRs) has also kindled patient concern about who has access to sensitive medical records. Healthcare organizations are obliged to protect patient records under HIPAA. The purpose o...

Taiwan's perspective on electronic medical records' security and privacy protection: Lessons learned from HIPAA

The protection of patients' health information is a very important concern in the information age. The purpose of this study is to ascertain what constitutes an effective legal framework in protecting both the security and privacy of health information, especially electronic medical records. All sorts of bills regarding electronic medical data protection have been proposed around the world incl...

Scrutinizing the Rule: Privacy Realization in HIPAA

Privacy policies, laws, and guidelines have been cultivated based on overly verbose specifications. This article claims that privacy regulations lend themselves to a firmer language based on a model of flow of personal identifiable information. The model specifies a limited number of situations and acts on personal identifiable information. As an application of the model, the model is applied t...

The Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records Regulation and the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Links: [1] https://www.buppractice.com/node/249 [2] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2002-title42-vol1/content-detail.html [3] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/32 [4] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/113 [5] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/78 [6] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/81 [7] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/138 [8] https://www.buppractice...

The HIPAA Privacy Rule and the EU GDPR: Illustrative Comparisons.