Providing Patients With Records Access: Overcoming Challenges
Rita Bowen, vice president of privacy, compliance and health information management policy, MRO Corp. As federal regulators intensify their focus on compliance with requirements to provide patients with access to their health information, healthcare organizations need to sort through a variety of emerging challenges, says health information management and privacy expert Rita Bowen. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has issued more than a dozen HIPAA settlements - ranging from $3,500 to $160,000 - in cases involving covered entities failing to provide timely ...
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