Incident Reports: The Facts You Include May Not Be Considered Confidential
Posted by Donna Craig in Feb, 2014
Hospitals, clinics, and other health care providers, take note – the information you include in patient and physician incident reports may be discoverable in medical malpractice suits. On January 30, 2014 the Michigan Court of Appeals decided Harrison v Munson Healthcare, Inc., which addressed the medical peer review privilege. A patient filed a malpractice lawsuit […]
Category: HIPAA
Post Tagged with Donna Craig, Health Professionals, Hospital, Incident Report, Peer Review, Physician, The Health Law Center HIPAA – Are Your Patient’s Medical Information Encrypted?
Posted by Donna Craig in Sep, 2013
Advocate Health Care in Illinois is now facing a state class-action lawsuit which was filed on behalf of 4 million individuals whose personally identifiable health information where accessed when four desktop computers were taken this past July during a burglary. The computers were password protected but not encrypted. The computers were located at the administrative offices of […]
Category: HIPAA
Are You Going To Be In Compliance With HIPAA On September 23, 2013?
Posted by Donna Craig in Sep, 2013
Earlier this year the Department of Health and Human Services issued revisions to HIPAA regulations, including Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Enforcement Rules through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”). The deadline for compliance with HIPAA revisions is September 23, 2013, and impact patient authorization requirements for certain marketing activities, […]
Category: HIPAA
