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Why it's Important to Check Your Health Records

Guidance from the Office for Civil Rights on your right to access your health records

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From the HHS Office for Civil Rights website: Ask your doctor. You have the right to see and get copies of your health information - PDF. In most cases, you can get a copy the way you want it, such as by e-mail. While your doctor normally has up to 30 days to provide you a copy of your information, your doctor often can provide the information much sooner than that. If your doctor offers a web portal, you may be able to easily view and download your health information whenever you want.

OCR Guidance on Ensuring Equal Access to Emergency Services During Hurricane Florence

Official guidance from the Office for Civil Rights

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As Hurricane Florence makes landfall, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and its federal partners remain in close coordination to help ensure that emergency officials effectively address the needs of at-risk populations as part of disaster response. If you believe that a person or organization covered by the Privacy and Security Rules (a "covered entity") violated your health information privacy rights or otherwise violated the Privacy or Security Rules, you may file a complaint with OCR. For additional information about how to file a complaint, visit OCR's web page on filing complaints at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/index.html.

Is It Legal to Record Your Visit with the Doctor?

Journal of the American Medical Association with an updated article from the BMJ

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In the article titled, "Can Patients Make Recordings of Medical Encounters?" from the JAMA Network authors Elwyn, Barr, and Castaldo discuss some of the broader legalities of making a recording while visiting your doctor.

Making a recording that you can add to your personal health record can be a great way of maintaining documentation and accountability for your care, as well as assist you and your family in remembering instructions given to you by your care provider.

Understanding the legalities can help ensure this is a positive experience for both you and your doctor and will allow you to make recordings that are admissible in court if needed.

The Guide to Getting & Using Your Health Records

An Office of the National Coordinator published web guide

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This newly published web guide from ONC titled, "The Guide to Getting & Using Your Health Records: The steps, tips, and tools you’ll need to get, check, and use your health record" helps to instruct consumers on how to get their health record from healthcare providers, their rights to those records, and some specific ways in which to get a hold of that information.

Visualized: Mashing up 2015 Edition Certification and Progress Attestation Requirements

An article from Health IT Buzz

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Have you ever wondered what a health information technology (health IT) developer’s share of meaningful use eligible hospitals looked like compared to its peers? How about the same for eligible clinicians under the Quality Payment Program (QPP)? Well, look no further. Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published two […]

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Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware

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I woke up to a flood of news about ransomware today. By virtue of being down here in Australia, a lot happens in business hours around the world while we're sleeping but conversely, that's given me some time to collate information whilst everyone else is taking a break. The WannaCry incident is both new and scary in some ways and more of the same old stuff in others. Here's what I know and what the masses out there need to understand about this and indeed about ransomware in general.

Ransomware Fact Sheet

Guidance from the U.S. Department of Human Services

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From the HHS Ransomware Fact Sheet:

A recent U.S. Government interagency report indicates that, on average, there have been 4,000 daily ransomware attacks since early 2016 (a 300% increase over the 1,000 daily ransomware attacks reported in 2015).1 Ransomware exploits human and technical weaknesses to gain access to an organization’s technical infrastructure in order to deny the organization access to its own data by encrypting that data.

Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection

But were afraid to ask...

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From the Troy Hunt article:

"The indictment also suggest that the hackers, in most cases, did not employ particularly sophisticated methods to gain initial entry into the corporate networks. The papers show that in most cases, the breach was made via SQL injection flaws -- a threat that has been thoroughly documented and understood for well over than a decade."

Data by Geography Training

A Health Resources & Services Administration YouTube video

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HRSA’s mission is to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce, and innovative programs. This video provides an overview of how to utilize the Data by Geography tool that helps outline HRSA’s investments nationwide or by a geographic area, including: HHS region, state, county, congressional district, and ZIP Code.

Health app developers, what are your questions about HIPAA?

A resource from the US Office for Civil Rights

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From the OCR website: 

We are experiencing an explosion of technology using data about the health of individuals in innovative ways to improve health outcomes. Building privacy and security protections into technology products enhances their value by providing some assurance to users that the information is safe and secure and will be used and disclosed only as approved or expected. Such protections are sometimes required by federal and state laws, including the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules.

Ranked Health: Curated Health Apps & Devices

Health app rankings by clinicians, researchers, & patients

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From the Ranked Health website: 

RANKED Health is a project run by the Hacking Medicine Institute (HMi), a non-profit organization spun out of MIT’s Hacking Medicine program. This project is designed to review and rank healthcare focused applications, providing independent, unbiased and accurate information to accelerate patient and provider adoption of clinically proven and high-quality digital health solutions. In addition to identifying best-in-class healthcare applications for better health monitoring and disease management, RANKED Health also helps uncover unsafe and ineffective apps on the market.

Mobile Health Apps Interactive Tool

Find out which federal laws you need to follow

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From the Federal Trade Commission website: 

Does your mobile app collect, create, or share consumer information? Does it diagnose or treat a disease or health condition? Then this tool will help you figure out which – and it may be more than one – federal laws apply. It’s not meant to be legal advice about all of your compliance obligations, but it will give you a snapshot of a few important laws and regulations from three federal agencies.

Business Associate Contracts

Sample Business Associate Agreement Provisions provided by the Office of Civil Rights

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From the OCR website:

A “business associate” is a person or entity, other than a member of the workforce of a covered entity, who performs functions or activities on behalf of, or provides certain services to, a covered entity that involve access by the business associate to protected health information.  A “business associate” also is a subcontractor that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of another business associate. 

NQF Identification and Prioritization of HIT Patient Safety Measures

National Quality Forum HIT Safety Report

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From the NQF website:

"In order to address the rapidly-evolving area of HIT and its intersection with quality and outcomes, NQF initiated a project to develop a set of recommendations around the measurement of HIT-related safety issues."

How your data is collected and commoditised via “free” online services

The fiscal impact of data breach

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I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations. Recently someone sent me a list of various data breaches they’d obtained.

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)

Important changes to how Medicare pays those who give care to Medicare beneficiaries

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From the CMS YouTube page: During this MLN Connects® video, CMS subject matter experts provide an overview of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which makes three important changes to how Medicare pays those who give care to Medicare beneficiaries: 
  1. Ending the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that determines Medicare payments for services
  2. Making a new framework to reward health care providers for giving better care 
  3. Combining our existing quality reporting programs into one new system

Unlocking the Future of Maternal Health Begins with Research

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Unlocking the Future of Maternal Health Begins with ResearchDr. Yvonne Bronner leads a research collaborative that addresses maternal health disparities within minority communities. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Devin Gives Mothers and Babies a Healthy Start by Engaging Dads

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Devin Gives Mothers and Babies a Healthy Start by Engaging DadsDevin Anderson has committed to strengthening the role of dads across DC through the DC Healthy Start Fatherhood Program. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Fatima's Home Visiting Support Leads Her to Serving Moms

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Fatima's Home Visiting Support Leads Her to Serving MomsFatima developed a bond with her home visitor, and it propelled her into a career where she extends the same support to other moms. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Nicole's Journey Through Postpartum Depression

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Nicole's Journey Through Postpartum DepressionNicole Barnett's journey through postpartum depression demonstrates the strength to seek help and break down the stigma surrounding maternal mental health. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Get ready for updated forms in DGIS

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Get ready for updated forms in DGISThis video previews the redesigned forms in the MCHB Discretionary Grants Information System (DGIS). These forms will go live on August 1, 2024. Learn more at https://mchb.hrsa.gov/data-research/discretionary-grants-information-system-dgis. Chapters: 0:27 Major Changes 1:21 Form Groupings 5:25 System Enhancements 6:26 Timeline 8:02 How to Prepare Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

HRSA Highlights February 2024

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HRSA Highlights February 2024In Feb., #HRSA announced the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative, participated in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom Tour, joined The Department of Health and Human Services & National Governor’s Association convening of state officials on maternal health: https://www.hrsa.gov/about/news/press-releases/february-2024-roundup Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Provider Relief Fund Reporting Tutorial

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Provider Relief Fund Reporting TutorialThis video will demonstrate the process of logging in and using the portal to report funds received during the period of availability. Chapters: 0:00 Opening 0:25 Resources 1:54 What to Report 2:53 Login 3:34 Security Questions 4:47 2FA 6:26 Password Reset 7:59 Maintenance Process 8:25 Contextual Help 10:03 Type of Reporting Entity 10:28 Terms & Conditions 10:40 Report Summary Landing Page 12:16 Manage Users 18:53 Conventions Used 21:20 Entity Overview 25:30 Subsidiary Questionnaire 27:38 Subsidiary Information 33:19 Payments to Recipients 36:33 Interest Earned on Payments, Tax Info, & Single Audit Info 39:06 Payments Summary 40:10 Other Assistance Received 42:01 Use of ARP Rural Distribution Payments 44:43 NHIC 47:41 Other PRF Expenses 50:26 Unreimbursed Expenses 51:50 Actual Patient Care Revenue 52:45 Lost Revenues Questionnaire 54:30 Lost Revenues 55:22 Lost Revenues – Budgeted Revenues 57:17 Alternate Method of Calculating Lost Revenues and Continued thoughts on Calculation Methods 59:15 Lost Revenues Summary 1:00:09 Financial Summary 1:03:54 Personnel, Patient, & Facility metrics 1:05:24 Survey 1:06:06 Review and Submit 1:07:59 Resources and Closing Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

NHSC Scholarship Available to Health Care Providers

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NHSC Scholarship Available to Health Care Providers“The NHSC Scholarship paid for my tuition as well as my living expenses, so I was able to focus on my education.” ~ Vanessa Latson, psychiatric nurse practitioner and NHSC Scholarship Program recipient Learn more about the scholarship program : https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/scholarships/overview and apply by April 25, 2024, 7:30 p.m. ET. ------ The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) removes financial barriers for highly qualified students and clinicians in primary care who want to serve a community in need. 💰 SCHOLARSHIP recipients receive: Tuition Required fees Reasonable educational costs Monthly support stipend ------ Learn more about all NHSC programs: https://nhsc.hrsa.gov. Subscribe to our emails: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USHHSHRSA/subscriber/new?qsp=HRSA-subscribe Follow NHSC on: LinkedIn: / national-health-service-corps Twitter: / nhscorps Facebook: / nationalhealthservicecorps

RSID RCORP - Implementation Data Collection in Salesforce Training

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RSID RCORP - Implementation Data Collection in Salesforce TrainingThis video is a recording of the RSID RCORP - Implementation Modernized PIMS Webinar. It provides a walkthrough of the new HRSA Data Collection Platform for Performance Reporting. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Share the Love: Donor Day 2024 Webinar

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Share the Love: Donor Day 2024 WebinarFeatured presentations from Tennessee Donor Services, Lifeline of Ohio, and Versiti. This webinar will inspire and motivate DoNation partners ahead of Donor Day and National Kidney Month. Explore tips for conducting organ, eye, and tissue donor outreach with heart. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Telehealth for screenings, care management, and follow-ups

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Telehealth for screenings, care management, and follow-upsAccess your full telehealth potential for: screenings, ongoing care management, and follow-up visits. Stay in the know with Telehealth.HHS.gov. Follow us: Facebook:➡ https://www.facebook.com/HRSAgov/ X: ➡https://twitter.com/hrsagov IG: ➡https://www.instagram.com/hrsagov/ LinkedIn: ➡https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrsagov

Telehealth policy changes

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