Effective August 12, 2021 CHA Manuals are available in ePub format only
The ePub includes a PDF and access to the CHA Manuals App for mobile use. CHA members may download PDFs for all CHA manuals, from the publications download library; the free CHA Manuals App may be downloaded from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.
Overview
This comprehensive resource addresses all state and federal laws related to the privacy of health information, and provides guidance to help hospitals comply with increasingly complex regulations. Laws covered include:
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
- Confidentiality of Medical Information Act
- Patient Access to Health Records Act
- Lanterman-Petris-Short Act
New for 2017
This edition incorporates into the main text information formerly found in preemption analyses charts so all information about a particular issue is in one place. The 2017 edition also addresses:
New Content
- Photographing and filming patients
- Searching patients and their belongings
- Observers present in the facility
- Audio recording confidential communications
- Body cameras and consumer wearables
- The Telephone Consumer Protection Act
New Laws/Court Decisions
- Responding to attorney requests prior to the filing of a lawsuit
- Changes regarding the release of health information in certain situations
- Rulings narrowing the definition of “medical information”
- Amendments regarding the breach of unencrypted computerized data
- HIPAA amendments regarding the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System
Office of Civil Rights Guidance Regarding
- Ransomware attacks
- The use of cloud computing solutions
- Patient’s right to have information sent to a third party
- Fees for copying health information
(Eighth edition, 2017)
Contents
The 2017 edition is over 400 pages and contains 13 chapters. The manual includes a CD with more than 40 useful forms, many in English and Spanish, which providers may use to comply with the patients’ rights requirements. A comprehensive index has also been added.
Chapters:
- Understand the Laws
- Administrative Processes and Considerations
- Privacy Rights and Notice of Privacy Practices
- Use and Disclosure of PHI: Fundamentals and Special Issues
- Use and Disclosure of PHI: CMIA Patients
- Use and Disclosure of PHI: LPS Patients
- Use and Disclosure of PHI: Substance Abuse Patients
- Privacy and the Conduct of Research
- Employee Health Information
- Health Information Security
- Business Associate Contracts
- Breaches
- Enforcement and Penalties
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Memo of Notable Changes
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ePub Terms of Use
CHA Members
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Forms Policy
CHA includes hard copies of forms and appendices in its manuals for all purchasers. Electronic versions of forms, appendices, and the model compliance plan are available to CHA members for download at www.calhospital.org/forms-and-appendices.