Our enormous, complex, confusing and expensive health system impacts every American's life. Does it help us or hurt us? Who makes the decisions which determine whether we live or die because of the care we receive? Who profits from those decisions? This blog's purpose to to help you understand and critically analyze our healthcare system. The more we know, the more we can demand and get improvement.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Health Information Technology - NEW!
OCR has published new HIPAA Privacy Rule guidance documents as part of a Privacy and Security Toolkit to implement The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy and Security Framework). These new guidance documents discuss how the Privacy Rule can facilitate the electronic exchange of health information. Clicking on this blog's title should connect you with this site.
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