MedCity News has assembled a multimedia reference guide to the impact of the HIPAA Omnibus final rule that has recently gone into effect. The articles listed include:
• Law firm Ballard Spahr offers a PowerPoint presentation explaining the new rule on its website with particular emphasis on state breach laws that are not overshadowed or rendered mute by new HIPAA requirements.
• Greenberg Traurig has a compliance checklist posted by FDA and life science attorney Miki Kolton on its Lexicology blog
• Health IT consulting group Priority One outlined what physician practices need to do to comply with HIPAA on the Practice Notes blog a website for UBM publication Physicians Practice.
• Emily Richmond’s article on Practice Fusion’s blog speaks to small physician practices.
• The American Medical Association has a toolkit that includes FAQs about encryption for personal health information.
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