American Medical Association's HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules Overview
The American Medical Association has created a resource for physicians to understand the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and their changes as a result of the 2009 economic stimulus package.
This resource outlines new requirements:
- Protection of patient information;
- How to comply with patients' requests to access their information; and
- Administrative protections physicians must have in place.
It also provides the compliance schedule and all relevant compliance deadlines.
The web address is as follows: www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/368/hipaa-guidance.pdf.
There are two errors in the document in the definition of a limited data set.
Error 1: The "(q) any identifiable characteristic" exclusion is not a part of the definition of a limited data set, but is listed in this document as such. Exclusion (q) should be removed from this document.
Error 2: The citation for the definition of a limited data set in the document is 164.512e. It is actually 164.514e and should be changed.
I emailed AMA to correct, but I'm not sure if the email will get to the right person. Just thought I'd point it out...