Health IT, Hospitals, Policy

A HIPAA Omnibus final rule reference guide

Throughout the year law firms, health IT bloggers, physicians and associations representing  health IT companies […]

Throughout the year law firms, health IT bloggers, physicians and associations representing  health IT companies and hospitals have posted insights on the impact of HIPAA Omnibus rule changes that go into effect today. Whether you come from the perspective of a hospital, or health IT vendor who may be a business associate or downstream business associate, here’s a handy multimedia reference guide sharing insights on the impact of the changes and what they mean in practice.

Ballard Spahr offers a PowerPoint walkthrough of the new rule on its website with notable highlights such as reminding readers that state breach laws are not overshadowed or rendered mute by new HIPAA requirements.

Greenberg Traurig has a compliance checklist by attorney posted by FDA and life science attorney Miki Kolton on its Lexicology blog

Health IT consulting group Priority One CEO and CTO outlined what physician practices need to do to comply with HIPAA on the Practice Notes blog a website for UBM publication Physicians Practice.Nelson Gomes is the president and CEO and Michael Daly is the senior systems engineer and HIPAA security officer of PriorityOne Group

The American Medical Association has a toolkit that includes frequently asked questions about encryption for personal health information.

Emily Richmond’s article on Practice Fusion’s blog speaks to small physician practices. Richmond is a member of the electronic medical record provider’s legal and policy team.

McGuire Woods did a series of articles outlining some of the rule changes and their implications. Among some of the topics covered include:

  • The impact on the HITECH Act received most of the attention but the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 is also affected. One article calls attention to the reclassification of genetic information as health information and prohibits the use or disclosure of genetic information for underwriting purposes for all health plans subject to the Privacy Rule, except long-term-care insurers.

David Harlow’s health law blog, Health Blawg, provides a useful article on how office equipment that may store patient health information, such as scanners, can get overlooked as health systems and physician practices brace to comply with the new rule.

Helen Oscislawski, founder of health-IT oriented law practice Oscislawski LLC, did a series of digestable 1.5 minute to 3.5 minute videos spotlighting various aspects of the rule changes from patient rights posted to Medical Society of New Jersey’s YouTube page.

The HIStalk blog hosted a webinar with Deven McGraw of the Center for Democracy and Technology and Harlow from the aforementioned Health Blawg highlighting what they see as the salient points of the rule changes.

 

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