News brief: Survey respondents blast HIPAA provision
Accounting for disclosures continues to be the most onerous privacy rule requirement for health care providers to meet and the provision the federal government most needs to change, according a recent survey by the American Health Information Management Association.
Health care privacy and security officials responding to the survey said the provision has very little value, given most of them have received no or few requests for an accounting. Just over half of the survey respondents worked in hospitals and health systems, and the rest in other health care settings.
The American Hospital Association and other organizations repeatedly have urged the Department of Health and Human Services to modify the rule to exempt all mandatory and routine disclosures to government entities from the accounting of disclosures requirement, a change also recommended by the Government Accountability Office and supported by a coalition of health care organizations.
Accounting for disclosures continues to be the most onerous privacy rule requirement for health care providers to meet and the provision the federal government most needs to change, according a recent survey by the American Health Information Management Association.
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