Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, Second Edition addresses many questions about compliance with HIPAA. Included in the coverage are sections dealing with applicability, preemption, use and disclosure of protected health information, individual rights, administrative requirements, group health plans, business associates, and enforcement. In addition, each section offers helpful practice aids such as a facility audit checklist, a limited data set agreement, a checklist of categories of state laws and regulations that need to be analyzed for preemption, checklists for valid authorizations, a sample privacy officer job description, a checklist for compliance for covered entities, and many others.
This publication includes an informative discussion not only about the organizations that are covered by this regulation, but also special categories such as affiliated entities, organized health care arrangements, hybrid entities and multiple covered functions. It extensively reviews the use and disclosure of protected health information including the gamut of optional consent requirement elements. Finally, it discusses the civil and criminal penalties associated with violations of the standards.
The second edition has been completely updated since the "final" regulations were issued, and includes even more useful templates and practice aids.
