In our initial blog post of February 20th, “For Your Radar – Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation,” we broadly discussed six key issues for healthcare stakeholders in the potential federal privacy and data protection legislation. We committed to future posts comparing and contrasting specific legislative proposals. What’s happened...
For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
This post is a part of my collaboration with The Health Care Blog For Your Radar - Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection...
Raising the Bar on Compliance with the Right of Access
HIPAA Right of Access 101 webinar -Ciitizen For nearly a year I have been posting about the core elements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right of individuals to access and receive copies of all of their of their health information. We’ve also been posting about Ciitizen’s experience in helping...
Welcome to My New Page
Since I became the Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen, I’ve been posting a lot on our blog, The Voice of Ciitizens.It’s been a great platform that helped put Ciitizen on the map for many people, but now we’ve moved my voice here — to a bigger stage — with one main goal: to help...
Re: How Many Calls to Get to the Center?
And the answer is …… 329!For just 95 records requests it took 329 calls to get to someone who would agree to send the records the patients were requesting. And 128 of these calls were escalations to privacy officers.If you think that this was because we were dealing with very small doctors’...
Knowledge of Your HIPAA Rights is Power
I sincerely hope that everyone on this planet has read and imbibed Deven’s post Empowering Patients: Know your rights!Her valuable HIPAA lesson will help you fully understand your rights as a patient to better navigate the roadblocks that often stand between you and your health data. Even with this information the...
Empowering Patients: Know Your Rights
At Ciitizen, we’re here to make sure you know your HIPAA rights regarding your health information. If you’ve ever tried to get a copy of your health records, you’ve probably hit a lot of roadblocks. Myths about HIPAA and your right to get your health information are rampant. Here are...
Asking For A Friend
I often get asked whether a close friend or family member can ask for another individual’s medical records. The very sick often have little energy to devote to obtaining their records, a time and energy-consuming process, so friends and family members frequently act as caregivers, and they are eager to...
On the Clock
In our previous post, we talked about the limitations of static patient portals, which hopefully will soon be going the way of the dinosaur. But not soon enough. In our work to help patients get all of their medical records related to their cancer diagnosis and care, we have noticed...
The Email Obstacle
JanusnetDo individuals have the right under HIPAA to get copies of their health information sent to them by e-mail if that’s how they want to receive it? Yes, they do. Under the Privacy Rule, individuals have the right to access their health information in the form or format they request,...
