/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ TelehealthNews..Vol. 3 No.2......August 1999 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Welcome to the Telehealth News. This is the Internet Telehealth resource for health professionals. Please feel free to pass this newsletter onto your friends and colleagues. Subscribing/unsubscribing information can be obtained at, http://telehealth.net/subscribe/subscribe_telenews.html Please visit our TelehealthNet website at: http://telehealth.net /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ SPONSORS: InnoMedia -- <http://www.innomedia.com/store/index.html> 2 Confer -- <http://telehealth.net/av_sections/av_isdn.html> <http://telehealth.net/av_sections/av_internet.html> Institute for Life Empowerment -- computerized protocols for mental health assessment & treatment at: <http://mentalhealthhelp.com/> Williams Conferencing -- <http://www.wilcom.com/> /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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 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 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ TELEHEALTHNEWS REVIEW BOARD: Deborah Burton, M.A. <[log in to unmask]> Rob Glueckauf <[log in to unmask]> Leigh W. Jerome, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> Sunkyo Kwon, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> David Nickelson, Psy.D., J.D. <[log in to unmask]> Nancy J. Sharp, MSN, RN <[log in to unmask]> B. Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D. [log in to unmask]> Mike Terry, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> TelehealthNews Editor/Writer Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> TelehealthNews Columnist Bob Pyke, Jr. <[log in to unmask]> /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Disclaimer: The accuracy of any information presented herein cannot be guaranteed. Permission is granted to reproduce or distribute this newsletter in its entirely only, and provided copyright is fully acknowledged. Copyright 1999 by Pioneer Development Resources, Inc.