HIPAA Blogs, Email Newsletters, And Useful Information Resources
Of course yes, there are a lot of informational sites on the Internet related to HITECH and HIPAA out of which I have separated the wheat from the chaff, segregated a few HIPAA blogs and websites, HIPAA newsletters, HIPAA twitterers etc. In this post let’s see those useful HIPAA information resources worth watching and subscribing.
HIPAA Blogs
Hope you all are aware and capable of locating RSS feeds of blogs or web sites and know to fetch information with RSS feeds from all over the web without the need to visit those sources again and again. With that assumption, here a few blogs on HIPAA.
- HIPAA Blog authored by anonymous. Not all posts are informative, still one or two may be.
- HIPAA Blog At BlogSpot authored by Jeffery P. Drummond of Jackson Walker LLP.
- HIPAA.com with a bunch of contributors viz., Alex Zaltsman, Carolyn Hartley, Ed Jones, and Edward Shay.
- HIPAA Compliance Journal authored by another unknown.
- HIPAA Compliance News brought to you by HIPAA Compliance Federation of America.
- HIPAA, HITECH and HIT by multiple authors brought to you by Fox Rothschild LLP.
- HIPAA Update by multiple authors brought to you by HCPro, Inc. (Their Q&A type of posts are interesting.)
- Realtime IT Compliance authored by Rebecca Herold of Privacy Guidance.
Couple of bloggers preferred to remain anonymous as there is no “about” page on those blogs, wondering whether they lack confidence and expertize in the subject and hence hiding behind the screen! However, the more we discuss about HIPAA, the more we come to know about it. We need precise information on the happenings around the subject; hence it didn’t matter whoever the author is.
HIPAA Email Newsletters
Even after the advent of XML and RSS feeds, email still remains the preferred mode of receipt of information. Hence if you still feel RSS as something techies only could use, here are a few HIPAA email news alerts worth subscribing to for people like you.
- HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Act newsletter from Digital Business Law Group.
- HIPAA Weekly Advisor from HCPro, Inc. (Alternatively RSS feed of HIPAA Weekly Advisor is available.) Q&A type of their updates is really very interesting.
- HIPAA Flash newsletter from BridgeFront. (Read the latest newsletter.)
HIPAA News Alerts on Twitter
Microblogging tools like Twitter and FriendFeed are a gift in keeping up to date on hot topics or even finding jobs if used properly, and there are a few HIPAA twitterers too. Here they are:
- HIPAA Compliance News (Official tweets of Health Care Compliance Association)
- Privacy Professor (Tweets of Rebecca Herold of Privacy Guidance)
- Privacy Security (Tweets of Bill Turner, Chief Security Officer at APS Healthcare)
- Carlos Levya (Author of LawTech TV and co-author of HIPAA Survival Guide)
HIPAA Web Sites
Other resources like HIPAA discussion groups or HIPAA forums or even any information from resources like Facebook or Linkedin haven’t been included. Essentially, the above mentioned resources are the ones that I have subscribed to, and these may be just a tip of the iceberg and many HIPAA information resources may still remain unnoticed by me. I will be updating this post as and when I come across any such interesting ones. If you know any other useful HIPAA information resource than these included here, please let me know to include that.
- HIPAA Compliance In Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post HITECH
- HIPAA Compliance Guidelines & Tips For Medical Transcriptionists
- Medical Transcription Blogs And Medical Transcriptionists’ Blogs
Raj,
I believe that the MT Herald provides a valuable service to its readers. There is significant confusion surrounding HITECH/HIPAA and it will be important for all industries impacted to have knowledgeable objective observers helping separate the “news you can use” from mere commentary.
While most of the healthcare marketplace remains in a “wait and see” mode, the reality is that HITECH is potentially transformational and action is required sooner rather than later. The HITECH Act provides for aggressive implementation deadlines if providers want to take advantage of the financial incentives.
However, along with incentives comes a HIPAA that is radically different than the HIPAA of the past. HHS is now required to conduct mandatory audits and will likely be significantly more aggressive in it enforcement actions (i.e. because U.S. tax payer dollars will now be used to provide EHR adoption incentives to providers).
HHS is also now potentially self funding, since any HIPAA fines collected will go towards replenishing its own coffers. This, combined with the fact that State Attorney Generals can bring suit on behalf of his/her citizens, and it adds up to whole new ball game.
As you know, Business Associates are now potentially criminally and civilly liable under HITECH/HIPAA. What does that mean to the industry? Who knows, but you bet that covered entities are going to be paying close attention to their business associates and their respect privacy and security processes.
Yes, well said precisely in a nutshell about the guillotine looming in the horizon, what I’ve been trying to say elaborately spanning three posts. Thank you very much Carlos.
Before the law takes its own course, identifying and plugging the holes, awareness, and preparedness could save the face if at all HHS officials pound on anyone in the healthcare chain.
Hope the alerts that have been made already awaken all of us in the medical transcription industry to stay in tune with the needs prescribed by the laws.
Thanks for the information. Everyone should read as much as they can about this subject.
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