Finding Information on CLIA Regulations

Patients' access to test reports: changes to CLIA regulations and HIPAA Privacy Rule.

The Joint Commission recently revised Information Management (IM) Standard IM.02.01.03, element of performance (EP) 5, Note 2, for laboratories. The revision is a result of a final rule effective April 7, 2014,* in which the US Department of Health & Human Services modified the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

ACCEPTED: new and revised laboratory requirements to meet relevant CLIA regulations.

clinical laboratories by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), The Joint Commission revised several elements of performance (EPs) for the laboratory accreditation program to meet the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88). The Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners accepted the new and revised EPs in December (effective February 1, 2012) and in February (...

Interpretation of Information Processing Regulations

Laws and policies impose many information handling requirements on business practices. Compliance with such regulations requires identification of conflicting interpretations of regulatory conditions. Current software engineering methods extract software requirements by converting legal text into semiformal constraints and rules. In this paper we complement these methods with a state-based mode...

The Influence of Regulations on Innovation in Information Security

We postulate that regulatory compliance pressures that have forced information security out of obscurity and into the corporate boardroom provide economic justification for information security firms to innovate. We aim to establish the link between regulations and innovation through the intermediary of demand for information security products and services. First, we show from the results of a ...

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