Grappling with HIPAA's hard parts

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http://www.govhealthit.com/news/years-end-policy-work-hipaa-disclosure-accounting

By Anthony Brino
Associate Editor
Government Health IT
November 25, 2013

As the seminal year of 2014 approaches for American healthcare, the Office 
of the National Coordinator (ONC) is getting an earful about implementing 
the HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures provision.

ONC's Privacy and Security Tiger Team is slated to convene the Monday 
after Thanksgiving, December 2nd, two days before the team is giving the 
Health IT Policy Committee recommendations on moving forward with 
disclosure accounting. That comes as HHS prepares an interim or final 
version of rules that many in the industry deemed too hard to achieve — 
for instance, with mandated PHI access reports for patients.

The Tiger Team, which includes Epic CEO Judy Faulkner and Cerner 
informatics VP David McCallie, MD, is going into December with consensus 
on several topics, and with a philosophy of "less is more" for approaching 
the issue as a whole.

The "scope of disclosures and related details to be reported to patients" 
should provide information that "is useful to patients, without 
overwhelming them" and that doesn’t place "undue burden on covered 
entities," the Tiger Team said in an outline of recommendations presented 
during a November 18th meeting.

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