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Annual, practical guide provides a fundamental understanding of all the HIPAA provisions. Breaks the regulation down into targeted and manageable components. Includes HIPAA history, review of provisions, timeline, key term alert symbol, dictionary, FAQs, and web resources. Softcover.
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…The number of HIPAA books may never reach the thousand mark, but as HIPAA gains critical mass, more books will become available on the subject. In the companion article, I outlined the measures that HIPAA will enforce. Briefly, these standards will affect almost all business transactions within organizations that process data relating back to individually identifiable patients. IT and security professionals within the healthcare industry will need to ensure that their organizations are in compliance with these standards.
Those looking for a concise overview of HIPAA should read — but ignore the title of — 2002 HIPAA Desk Reference: A Physicians’ Guide to Understanding the Administration Simplification Provision. The title is a bit deceptive, as the book is useful for anyone involved with HIPAA — not just for physicians as the title implies. The book provides a wide ranging and practical look at all of the HIPAA provisions. It breaks down the regulation into easy to understand areas and includes a review of HIPAA. Each chapter ends with a set of review questions and answers.
In less than 200 pages, the 2002 HIPAA Desk Reference is the best HIPAA title in print today and provides the reader with all of the required fundamentals of HIPAA. Comprising six well-organized chapters, the book starts with a brief history of HIPAA and how the regulations originated. Chapter 1 deals with transactions and code sets. Transactions and code sets were the original mandate of HIPAA the security and privacy regulations were added later.
Chapters 2 and 3, which comprise the bulk of the book, deal with the Privacy and Security and Electronic Signature stands of HIPAA. As stated earlier, it is the security and privacy provisions are the most challenging of the HIPAA requirements). Chapters 2 and 3 provide a lot of valuable information on what specifically is required by HIPAA for these areas, including details on what is required under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The authors write in a clear and easy to understand style, which is crucial because much of the HIPAA verbiage is quite abstract. Other critical topics such as disclosure, transmissions and communications, and digital signature standards are discussed.
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