Show measures to assure the integrity and confidentiality of data under their care For example establishment of audit trails assessment of security readiness in business associate contracts and investment in training and secure systems are steps that can be taken to assure the requisite physical and technical safeguards are in place The effective date of the privacy regulations is under review and will be determined by the Secretary followingsecond comment period March 30 2001 Despite these concems the regulations have elevated privacy issues tonational level as evidenced by the over 50 000 comments made during the first comment period The bad news is that there is no money to implement HIPAA implementation will take years It is no surprise that some provider and payer organizations oppose regulations citing financial operational burdens The good electronic commerce in health administrative overhead and health care delivery these legal and news is that will reduce streamline The proponents of privacy and security rules recognize privacy standards arepackage deal with electronic commerce as well as the price ticket for building the patienttrust and entering the 21 References Department of Health and Human Services HHS Fact Sheet December 20 2000 Washington DC S Government Printing Office Privacy in Health Care Public Health Data Standards Consortium Second Annual Steering Commitiee Meeting March 22 2001 WashingtonC century of health information 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information Final Rule National Association of Health Data Organizations NAHDO August 2000 Comments on the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information DHHS website www dhhs gov ocr 138 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |