HIPAA laws can be found online. But as they are not so simple to understand, you might like to go for one of those packages where you get a HIPAA Regulatory Manual along with a CD-ROM. Periodically, new rules are introduced under HIPAA. So one must buy the latest updated versions of such manuals and [...]
HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act, introduced in 1996. The aim was to ensure that people who are changing their jobs could continue to enjoy quality health care services. This act ensures that any person who has taken a group health insurance plan must have the right to buy health insurance [...]
Information technology (IT) has long been touted as the key to improved business processes. So, how is IT advancing to help make a claims manager?s life easier, better respond to patients’ needs, meet mandated guidelines, ensure patient privacy, and bring efficiencies to the overall process?
New advancements, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) systems that help [...]
“I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.” (1) This excerpt from the modern Hippocratic Oath to which every doctor swears by; it was set to ensure that each patient?s information and condition is kept private.
The communal spaces of a clinic [...]
The management of medical transcription, medicare billing, cpt codes, and other medical records has typically consisted of wall to wall files of paper records. According to a recent survey conducted by Accenture, most health care consumers feel that switching to the electronic medical record would improve the quality of health care and the security of [...]
