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eHealth Privacy Matters

Your health matters. Your privacy matters. And you don’t need to sacrifice either one. Education about the laws that protect your information and your rights as a Californian are important Read More...
California Action on Privacy

With Federal financial incentives and progress in technology, the nation is headed towards more electronic exchange of patient health records. As eHealth progresses, California is staying on top of privacy and security issues. Read More...
Practicing Privacy

With the many laws covering the privacy and security of health information in California, how can a provider make sure he/she is protecting information properly? Read More...

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Handling HIPAA: 4 new provisions providers must know

01.30.2013

If knowledge--including patient data--is power, then the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has sent a message to providers and other organizations charged with handling and protecting that data when it published the HIPAA omnibus final rule: With great power comes great responsibility.

EHRs play signifcant role in HIPAA omnibus rule

01.23.2013

While the patient privacy, breach notification and other provisions of HIPAA's final omnibus rule, unveiled last week, have received a lot of attention, a number of important provisions that directly affect electronic health records and related health information technology have received little fanfare.

Violating patient privacy: A social media 'never event'

01.15.2013

What professionals should post on social media is always tricky, and physicians should be especially careful with what they tweet and post to Facebook, according to a survey of state medical boards--not only for their reputations, but also because it can violate patient privacy.

Patients have questions about HIE data

01.11.2013

Before they agree to participate in health information exchange (HIE), patients want to know who their information would be shared with, what type of information would be shared and if they could change their decision in the future, according to a survey conducted by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

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Privacy and Breach of Health Information

For general questions about health information privacy issues and/or breach of such information please send an e-mail to CalOHII’s Enforcement Branch at enforce@ohi.ca.gov

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