Advanced Privacy Issues in Healthcare Regulations
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Discussing HITECH changes, breach reporting, privacy practices, and more. Detailed info on proposed accounting regulations impacting privacy practices in the healthcare sector. Understandable reporting format and restrictions explained.
Advanced Privacy Issues in Healthcare Regulations
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Advanced Privacy Issues Gregory D. Frost Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson LLP Baton Rouge, Louisiana
We’re going to do something different …. • We’re going to discuss what you want to talk about • Afterward, we’re going to give you a handout that covers the topics discussed
So, what would you like to talk about? • Suggestions: • HITECH changes: • Breach reporting • Notice of Privacy Practices • Immunizations • Fundraising • Marketing • Sale of PHI
So, what would you like to talk about? • More suggestions: • New proposed accounting rule • De-identification, limited data sets, data use agreements, etc. • Access and amendment • "legal" health record • meaningful use standard
So, what would you like to talk about? • Other suggestions?
Proposed Accounting Regulations • Issued May 31, 2011 • Comment period expired August 1, 2011 • Would— • Modify the existing rule for written accounting • Add a more comprehensive “access report” for electronic data • Would go into effect: • For written accounting, 240 days after publication of final rule • For access report: • EHR acquired on or before January 1, 2009: • January 1, 2014 (no extension) • EHR acquired after January 1, 2009: • January 1, 2013 (2-year extension)
Proposed Accounting Regulations • Written accounting • Would apply only to disclosures from designated record set • Would go back only 3 years • Individual could limit it, e.g., to a particular period, type of disclosure or recipient • Would have to be provided within 30 days (with one 30-day extension)
Proposed Accounting Regulations • Access Report • Would have to indicate who has accessed PHI in an electronic designated record set held by the CE or a BA within three years prior to the request • No option to provide list of business associates • Would affect only business associates holding designated record set • Would not be limited to electronic health record • Would include internal access (i.e., use) as well as disclosure • Would have to include • Date and time of access • Name of natural person, if available, otherwise entity having access • Description of information accessed, if available • Description of action if available, e.g., create, modify, accessor delete • Would not have to include the purpose
Proposed Accounting Regulations • Access Report • Would have to be in a format understandable to the individual • Machine readable or hard copy, as requested by individual • CE would have to allow individual to limit report to a specific date, time period or user • Would have to be provided within 30 days, with one 30-day extension • CE would have to provide one report free every 12 months • Charge for additional reports limited to reasonable, cost-based fee