by Girish Anand | Mar 3, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, HIPAA
Though HITECH (the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act) took full effect this past Feb. 17, provisions regarding business associates were still vague, as we noted at the time. Now, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of...
by Girish Anand | Nov 2, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Health Care Reform, Minimum Wage Law, Personnel Concepts, State Labor Law
Implementing changes to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) contained in the stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Oct. 30, 2009, published its Interim Final...
by Girish Anand | Oct 26, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, HIPAA, OSHA, Random Musings, State Labor Law, Uncategorized
Provisions in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was part of the stimulus package passed in February, created new security and breach rules for those covered by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and...
by Girish Anand | Jan 23, 2009 | Health Care Reform, Random Musings
I’m usually not a fan of the stuff in the Huffington Post since it’s–let’s just say–a bit past center politically, but in my ongoing research on HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), I came across a first-person...