Over the past years, many of you have asked for an implementation guide that may be followed to acknowledge transactions at a more detailed level than that...
In your security management program please add the following to your survey questions to your system vendors: Are there any characters that if used in...
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! MARK IT NOW!!! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) invites you to participate in the Seventeenth National HIPAA...
September 29, 2004 - New California Information Security Privacy Law: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901- 1950/ab_1950_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf On...
Mark your calendars! Security Teleconferences sponsored by CMS Regions IV and VI and presented by SHARP (Southern Healthcare Administrative Regional Process)...
Question: Does HIPAA allow the sharing of ePHI between unaffiliated providers? Background: We are entering into an agreement with a non-affiliated health care...
Questions: (1) If a vendor is a business associate, are there any additional requirements necessary to ensure vendor access to the system (and ePHI) is...
Looking at some compliance toolkits that healthcare attorneys are offering their clients, I continually get disappointed. These toolkits offer risk analysis,...
Hi Tom, I'm using a tool called ComplyAssist to guide us through, plan and document our HIPAA Security Compliance effort. You might want to check it out....
I have attached my HIPAA reference links that I have completed updating this morning. It is current through October 25, 2004. Having information readily...
An addenda to X12N's version 003070 Implementation Guide noted in the forwarded message is now available for public comment. The underlying Implementation...
For those who may be interested, attached is the draft version of the National Provider Identifier Application being used for evaluation under the Paperwork...
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For those who may be interested, the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the National Provider Identifier (NPI) Enumerator -- the contractor organization that will...
I finished the draft of Collection of HCO Security Practices and NIST Crosswalk this morning. I hope that it will help with some of your mitigation work plan...
[From a press release dated 8 November 2004] The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 and the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) are pleased to...
National HIPAA Roundtable On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 (TOMORROW!) at 2:00PM ET CMS will host the 17th National HIPAA Implementation Roundtable conference...
On Friday November 5, 2004 a request was received by the ShareHIPAA group and was forwarded to the ShareHIPAA2 group for discussion. Here is the request: Is...
For those who may be interested, a Request for Information (RFI) "seeking public comment and input regarding how widespread interoperability of health...
Attached is an excel spreadsheet of HIPAA links and phone numbers that are helpful in the HIPAA Compliance initiative. The items are current as of November...
I have attached a white paper that was finalized November 16, 2004 on 45 CFR Administrative Safeguard 164.308 Risk Analysis. It mainly covers methods to ...
CMS is publishing a series of 7 white papers on the HIPAA Security Rule. The first of the series, Security 101for Covered Entities, has been uploaded to the...
Season's Greetings! You are cordially invited to attend a very special free seminar on HIPAA Security Risk Analysis this Friday! This seminar is sponsored by...
The following are extracted from announcements from the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) and the National Uniform Claims Committee (NUCC). _ _ _ _ _ _...
Happy New Year! Some policies have been added to the ShareHIPAA group's file section you may find useful. They were uploaded to the Files Section by: Ross A....
The following message abstract announces an Informational Forum for what is slated to be a new Type 3 Technical Report (TR3). This Informational Forum will be...
A draft version of X12N's version 005010 835 Health Care Claim Payment/Advice Implementation Guide is now available for public review and comment as a key...