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Feds Post New Guidance Document

By Helen Oscislawski

pThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has publishednbsp;a new HIPAA Privacy Rule guidancenbsp;as part of its quot;Privacy and Security Toolkitquot; (the quot;Toolkitquot;)nbsp;developed in connection with strongquot;The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Informationquot; /strong(the quot;HIE Frameworkquot;).nbsp; The new HIPAA guidance isnbsp;available on the a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/hit"OCR Privacy Rule web site/a./p pThe federal government developed the HIE Framework and Toolkit in order to establish privacy and security principles for health care stakeholders engaged innbsp;electronic health information exchange (quot;e-HIEquot;).nbsp; The documents alsonbsp;include tools to help implement these principles. Among other things, the new HIPAA Privacy Rule guidance documentnbsp;discussesnbsp;how the Privacy Rule supports and can facilitate e-HIE in a networked environment.nbsp; In addition, the documents address electronic emaccess /emby patients to his/her PHI,nbsp;and how the Privacy Rule appliesnbsp;to and supports the use of Personal Health Records./p pnbsp;nbsp;/p pnbsp;/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HipaaHealthLaw/~4/486595253" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by HIPAA Health Law & Technology on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).