Electronic Patient Records Privacy

All health care professionals and organizations should be up to date on the latest developments in law, rules, methods and regulations on the protection of electronic patient information.  In the interest of patient privacy, healthcare data security law is changing and will continue to change over the next few years. As the United States Congress promotes electronic health records with subsidies and new legislation, it is revising HIPAA rules on the protection of patient information.   (HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.) Benjamin Wright’s Legal Beagle blog has issued a unique, new report to analyze and explain how medical entities will need to respond to the new HITECH Act – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health -- that Congress passed in February of this year, 2009.  Failure to comply with the forthcoming rules could lead to unwelcome embarrassment, monetary fines and possibly lawsuits by patients,  regulatory authorities or groups of class action plaintiffs.  All health care organizations (clinics, hospitals, labs, doctors' offices, insurance companies, data processors and more) will need to design and modify their computer systems to keep appropriate logs and audit trails related to access of information about individual patients.  As explained on the blog, please attend Mr. Benjamin Wright's free web seminar on this topic scheduled for delivery Thursday, August 27, 2009.  For more information, please see http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/200 ...


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Wright's Legal Beagle is an advanced blog on electronic data law, email and eDiscovery. These are topics important to lawyers, legal assistants, regulatory authorities, government administrators and information technology professionals. Articles on the blog go into considerable depth and historical analysis; they do more than just report and comment on the latest news in the field.

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