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Fwd: Re: HIPPA
>From: "Willis, Charles E." <cewillis@TEXASCHILDRENSHOSPITAL.ORG>
>
>The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the
>Information Services excuse for not doing anything this year, like Y2K was
>last year!
>
>Seriously, this legislation potentially has a huge impact on how we handle
>diagnostic images. This is very scary stuff - Congress missed a deadline to
>create regulations, so the Executive Branch, under Billary Clinton, created
>the scariest set of Xerox Police regulations that ever existed, including
>CRIMINAL PENALTIES for everybody in the chain of mishandling for patient
>records, which includes images. Many of the regulations are on hold pending
>review by the Bush administration.
>
>The fundamental idea is wonderful, that the patient is the owner of his
>medical records and that health care workers should work to respect and
>protect his privacy. The bad thing is the jack-booted, trial lawyer
>mentality that went into creating the regulations, which shouldn't surprise
>anybody considering the character of the previous administration.
>
>Unfortunately, it is impossible to segregate a political diatribe from any
>serious discussion of these regulations. You need to find out more about
>them to protect yourself as a potential defendant in some future litigation.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D. Jay Freedman [SMTP:dfreedm@HARTHOSP.ORG]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:53 PM
> > To: MEDPHYS@LISTS.WAYNE.EDU
> > Subject: HIPPA
> >
> > My computer guy just told me that because of a Federal? regulation issued
> > =
> > by HIPPA? that starting this summer we were going to have to start =
> > changing the passwords on our computers every 60 days. Obviously, I don't
> > =
> > quite have this right. Does anyone know anything about this?
> > djay
> >
> > D. Jay Freedman
> > dfreedm@harthosp.org
> >
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> > Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics http://ojps.aip.org/acm
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>Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics http://ojps.aip.org/acm
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