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Forum Covers Banking, HIPAA

A one-day forum in February will explore how HIPAA's administrative simplification and privacy/security provisions affect health care banking services.

Online Comments Lead To Privacy Complaint

From April 2003 until the end of last year, the federal government has received nearly 1,500 complaints from patients in Pennsylvania, alleging privacy violations under HIPAA. One case has angered local women so much that they switched doctors. It centers on a myspace page created in the name of Stephanie Sicilia, an employee of local doctor Paul Zubritzky.

Protecting e-patient privacy: new government guidelines

Although business in the US has made the most of the productivity gains brought about by the IT revolution, the practice of medicine in the US is only now getting to grips with digital records. Electronic health records (EHRs), it is hoped, will be an integral part of the plan to do something about skyrocketing health costs in the US. However, concerns about the security of medical records remain paramount—as anyone who's had any experience with HIPAA can confirm. To that end, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has announced a number of key principles and a tool kit related to health IT privacy.


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