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If you dont comply with HIPAA privacy regulations, you may face civil penalties of up to $25,000 for each requirement violated, and criminal penalties of up to $50,000 and one year in prison for obtaining or disclosing protected health information.
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This is the first in a series of periodic columns that will address specific questions related to implementation of HIPAA.
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The most seriously ill children are more likely than other youngsters in the hospital to experience drug mistakes, according to new research released at the same time as new guidelines on how to avoid such errors with children.
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In a recent lawsuit, a woman accused her doctor of branding his alma maters initials on her uterus during surgery. A legal expert says the crux for risk managers is how the videotape of the surgery both caused the lawsuit and might end it in the doctors favor.
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Doctors went on strike recently in several states to protest the malpractice crisis, as President Bush called for significant malpractice reform that would cap damages and rein in the trial attorneys blamed for much of the problem. Californias Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA) could be the solution, some say.
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High technology can be a solution to improving your translation services. One example is Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, which recently implemented a system providing audiovisual interpreting services on demand for non-English-speaking or hearing-impaired patients.
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These tips on improving your translation services are offered by Glenn Flores, MD, director of community outcomes in the department of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and Grena Porto, RN, ARM, DFASHRM, senior director of clinical operations at VHA Inc. in Berwyn, PA, and past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
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If youre not moving, start. On April 14, covered entities under HIPAA are expected to be in compliance with the new Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information.
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There is an extremely high level of confusion, misunderstanding, frustration, anxiety, fear, and anger in a broad range of people and organizations as the April 14 compliance date for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule nears. Thats the finding of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a statutory public advisory body to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the area of health data and statistics.
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Recent news reports of patients who lived for months with surgical items mistakenly left in them has spurred the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) to urge that such incidents be reported to the national system it has set up to record such errors.
