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A SeaTac, WA, man pleaded guilty in federal court to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information for economic gain.
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The Radio-Television News Directors Association says all journalists, and particularly those working for electronic media, have been hampered in their work by actual HIPAA privacy requirements and by interpretations of those requirements by some people and organizations.
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Entities covered under the HIPAA security rule are not required to certify compliance with provisions of the rule, according to guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of HIPAA Standards staffer Dianne Faup says the agency has received more than 200 transaction/code set complaints, with some 58 still open at the time of her September presentation to the Ninth Annual HIPAA Summit.
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Medicare continues to work closely with contractors, providers, billing agents, clearinghouses, and software vendors to achieve HIPAA goals and will be making greater use of the Internet and working on implementation of electronic attachments to electronic medical records.
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The discussion of call centers that began in the October Hospital Access Management continues this month with some follow-up questions posed by Gillian Cappiello, CHAM, senior director of access services and chief privacy officer for Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago on staff training, balancing call workload, and other issues.
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The term black belt, taken from the concepts of martial arts, describes an expertise level pertaining to Six Sigma.
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Its impossible to fully explain Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Healths emergency department (ED) cash collections project without discussing the multihospital health systems Six Sigma quality assurance program, officials there say.
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Viagra: Maximum Capacity at High-Altitudes?; FDA Actions.
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The High Cost of MRSA; Treatment of Latent TB: A High Priority; The APRICOT HCV/HIV Co-infection Study.
