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The "HITECH" portion of the Health Information Technology portion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has added numerous requirements to those already imposed by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations. Enforcement initiatives have been expanded, and civil monetary penalties have been substantially increased. There are new obligations for public notification of security breaches, and patients are gaining new rights to their health information. Effective February 17, 2010, business associates will, for the first time, be directly responsible to the federal government for compliance with the Security Regulations and certain privacy requirements.
Ms. Stiller is assisting providers and business associates with HIPAA/HITECH compliance issues, and can help you with:
- Implementation of changes required by HITECH Act
- Business Associate compliance with new HITECH Act requirements
- Policies & Procedures for Security of Electronic Information
Since the adoption of the original Privacy and Security Regulations, Ms. Stiller has helped numerous providers with:
- Clinical research issues
- Authorizations to disclose PHI
- Documentation to support disclosure of PHI where authorization is
not required
- Data use agreements for limited data sets
- Assistance for vendors wishing to advise their physician clients of
the HIPAA implications of the vendor's work
- PHI access questions
- Patient requests to amend PHI
- Revisions to Notice of Privacy Practices
- Compliance reviews and investigations
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