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TelehealthNews..Vol. 3 No.2......August 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I
1. Featured Article: HIPAA, Electronic Medical Records and Your Practice
2 Politics and Policy - AMA to develop web prescription guidelines
3. Other News in Telehealth:
APA Telehealth Mini-Convention, Boston, August 21-22
Internet Healthcare Developments
3. References - Nursing Articles in Telehealth
4. TelehealthNews Review Board
PART II
See Next Post
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Electronic
Medical Records, and Your Practice
by Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.
Legislators are enacting laws to secure all electronic healthcare
information, ranging from Internet email to satellite transmission of
videoconferencing and all healthcare records. Resulting legislation will
create iron-clad controls for confidentiality, security and data
management. On August 1, 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (Public Law 104-191), otherwise known as the
Kennedy-Kassenbaum Act, was introduced in Congress. The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) called for protections for the
privacy of medical information. It is an attempt to improve the portability
and continuity of health insurance coverage through administrative
simplification by the Congress and the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS).
HIPAA includes provisions to address the need for security and electronic
signature standards. These standards will reduce unauthorized access and
alteration of confidential health records by implementing universal
security, integrity, and authentication standards, and will be enforced
through harsh penalties for those responsible for their violation. The
standards will apply to all electronic health data transmitted by health
care providers, health care clearinghouses, and health plans. Standards
will apply to records that are in transit, reside in a practitioner's data
system, or in other databases. Compliance with this law will be required by
February 2002.
Meanwhile, input is being sought by various governmental agencies to aid
with applicability and compliance to this law. Make your voice heard on
this listserv:
To join, send a E-mail [log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http://www-security-request@[log in to unmask]
in body: Type Subscribe
www-security your_email address
MORE SECURITY INFORMATION
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq
http://cs-www.ncsl.nist.gov
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security.html
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security-prog.html
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/hotlist/
http://www.misti.com/
http://www.weboffice.ethz.ch/default_en.htm
http://www.winmag.com/library/1996/0896/08c1_001.htm#A2
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3103.ENR:
http://www.epic.org:80/privacy/medical
OTHER SECURITY RESOURCES
CPRI security group http://www.cpri.org
JCAHO http://www.jcaho.org
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
www.ahima.org “Products and Events”
919 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 787-2672
(312) 787-9793 FAX
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
www.amia.org
4915 St. Elmo Avenue, #401, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-1291
(312) 657-1296 FAX
Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM)
www.chim.org
3800 Packard Road, #150, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
(734) 973-6116
(734) 973-6996 FAX
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
http://chime-net.org
3300 Washtenaw Ave, #225, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 665-0000
(734) 665-4922 FAX
Computerized Patient Records Institute (CPRI)
www.cpri.org
4915 St. Elmo Avenue, #401, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-1291
(301) 657-1296 FAX
Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
www.himss.org “Education”
230 East Ohio Street, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60611-3269
(312) 664-HIMS or (312) 664-4467
(312) 664-6143 FAX
Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
www.jhita.org “Calendar” and “Education Programs”
MIS Training Institute
www.misti.com
498 Concord St., Framingham, MA 01702-2357
(508) 879-7999
(508) 872-1153 FAX
Tunitas Group
http://home.earthlink.net/~tunitas
728 Augusta Drive, Moraga, CA 94556
925) 631-1244
(925) 631-6640 FAX
COMMERCIAL SECURITY COMPANIES
Indenticator 800-557-8188
Miros 617-235-0330
Mytec Technologies 416-467-9738
Recognition System 408-364-6960
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POLITICS & POLICY: AMA to Develop Web Prescription Guidelines
The American Medical Association adopted a resolution at
its annual meeting in Chicago calling for the development of principles
describing appropriate use of the Internet for prescriptions.
For further information, please visit their web site,
at http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/24/online.rx/>
Online drugstores face state lawsuit
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/drugsuit.idg/
Web drugstores: Prescription for disaster?
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/04/edrugs.idg/index.html
New York clears way for electronic medication transactions
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/07/nymed.idg/index.html
The Web-coupon craze continues
Longs Drugs and America Online are two of the newest participants
in the Web coupon trend. February 19, 1999
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/19/webcoupon.idg/index.html
The Net can improve pharmaceutical testing January 21, 1999
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/21/pharm.idg/index.html
Digital drugstores hit the Net Web sites can help you get refills,
but can't replace your local pharmacy.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/20/drugs.idg/drugs.html
2 online pharmacies want to be your druggist December 22, 1998
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/22/rxonline.idg/index.html
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OTHER NEWS IN TELEHEALTH
APA TELEHEALTH MINI-CONVENTION
1999 American Psychological Association will feature its first
Telehealth Mini-Convention on August 21-22, in Boston. This
two-day event will take place as part of the APA Annual
Convention, and will offer 47 presentations and
10 discussions by renown faculty.
For specific topics and timetable:
http://telehealth.net/THNMiniflyer99.html
INTERNET HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENTS
The Future of the Internet in Health Care: A Five-Year Forecast"
California HealthCare Foundation.
http://www.informatics-review.com/thoughts/future.html
Health on the Net's Fourth Survey on the Use of the Internet for Medical
& Health Purposes, completed Spring 99
http://www.hon.ch/Survey/analysis.html
http://www.hon.ch/Survey/ResumeApr99.html
National Library of Medicine - National Heart Attack Alert program
http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not99-103.htm
Home Telemedicine for Congestive Heart Failure
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990614/ny_olsten_1.html
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NURSING ARTICLES
A great resource for those wanting to know more about telehealth.
1. Sharp, Nancy J. Nurse Practitioners, Telemedicine, and the Federal
Communications Commission. NURSE PRACTITIONER JOURNAL, Vol. 21, No. 7,
July 1996, pps. 99-100, 103.
2. Sharp, Nancy J. Medicare Reimbursement: For NPs, CNSs, MDs and
Telehealth. NURSE PRACTITIONER JOURNAL, Vol. 22, No. 8, August 1997,
pps. 143-144, 146.
3. Sharp, Nancy J. Nurse in a Jeep. NURSE PRACTITIONER JOURNAL, Vol.
22, No. 12, December 1997, pps. 82, 84, 89.
4. Sharp, Nancy J. From "Incident to" to Telehealth: New Federal Rules and
Regulations Affect NPs. NURSE PRACTITIONER JOURNAL, Vol. 23, No. 8,
August 1998, pps. 68-69.
5. Sharp, Nancy J. Teleconsultation: The Dealth of Distance. NURSE
PRACTITIONER JOURNAL, Vol. 23, No. 10, October 1998, pps. 84, 87-88.
6. Sharp, Nancy J. A Teleconsultation Briefing: Another Example of 'Ya
Gotta Be There. CIN PLUS (CIN = Computers in Nursing), Vol. 2, No. 1,
January 1, 1999, page 3.
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