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Disclosure is a complex process, not simply an opportunity to sit at the patients bed side and say youre sorry, says the chief operating officer and vice president of care delivery at Childrens Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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Living wills just arent worth the paper theyre printed on, say two experts who have looked at how the documents are really used.
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Many agencies and nonprofit organizations that tout living wills are reporting a sharp increase in people seeking the documents because of the Schiavo case, so you can expect more patients to show up with questions about them or clutching a living will that they downloaded off the Internet.
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Risk managers know better than most people that, while living wills can be useful in some circumstances, they do not guarantee that end-of-life decisions will be simple or uncontested. The Schiavo case proves that point well, says the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and professor of internal medicine at UM in Ann Arbor.
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An editorial in the February Annals of Epidemiology expresses concern that HIPAAs efforts to enhance patient confidentiality by restricting access to medical records is slowing the progress of critical biomedical research.
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The Confidentiality Coalition, a group of hospitals, health plans, drug companies, medical device manufacturers, biotech firms, health product distributors, pharmacies, employers, medical teaching colleges, and others, is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to use his authority to change the HIPAA privacy rules accounting of disclosures requirement.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published the third in a series of seven papers designed to provide guidance on the HIPAA security standards.
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Many small physician practices had gaps in three key areas as they attempted to meet the April 20 deadline for HIPAA security standards, according to Dallas-based MedSynergies.
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Creative Solutions for Your World is the theme of the 31st annual conference and exposition of the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) to be held this month at the Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, FL.
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When a health care provider covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) uses an interpreter to communicate with an individual, that individuals authorization is not required for the disclosure of protected health information to the interpreter, as long as certain conditions are met.