Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
[This was posted by someone who never posts anything unless it's been fully investigated. It was posted in 2008 and hasn't been updated. There's a small possibility that HIPAA has changed that but..........so if anyone can find out, I'd appreciate.
"Privacy Forms" that gave the illusion that their records were, well, private.
The Elimination of Consent
1996 Congress passed HIPAA, but did not pass a federal medical privacy statute, so the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HSS) was required to develop regulations that specified patients' rights to health privacy.
"...the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to [Congress]... detailed recommendations on standards with respect to the privacy of individually identifiable health information."
2001 President Bush implemented the HHS HIPAA "Privacy Rule" which recognized the "right of consent".
"...a covered healthcare provider must obtain the individual's consent, in accordance with this section, prior to using or disclosing protected health information to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations."
2002 HHS amended the HIPAA "Privacy Rule", eliminating the "right of consent".
"The consent provisions... are replaced with a new provision...that provides regulatory permission for covered entities to use and disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, or health care operations."
Download the Elimination of Consent as a PDF file. http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/sit ... docID=1901
HIPAA - The Reality
The "Privacy Rule" Became the "Disclosure Rule"
HIPAA produced absurd results because patients were no longer asked what medical information they wanted shared and what information they wanted to be kept private. Barriers were created that patients didn't want, and access was granted to private corporations, individuals and government agencies that patients would never have agreed to.
Even more damaging, the amendments to the "Privacy Rule" opened the nation's sensitive health records to millions of providers, employers, government agencies, insurance companies, billing firms, transcription services, phamacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical companies, data miners, creditors and more for any "routine" use.
1. You will not receive any notice of "routine" use and disclosure of your health information.
2.There are no audit trails of "routine" uses and disclosures
3. Access to you health record is retroactive, regardless of whether you paid out-of-pocket or were guaranteed privacy at the time. This means your health records from birth to death are available to others.
"Privacy Forms" that gave the illusion that their records were, well, private.
The Elimination of Consent
1996 Congress passed HIPAA, but did not pass a federal medical privacy statute, so the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HSS) was required to develop regulations that specified patients' rights to health privacy.
"...the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to [Congress]... detailed recommendations on standards with respect to the privacy of individually identifiable health information."
2001 President Bush implemented the HHS HIPAA "Privacy Rule" which recognized the "right of consent".
"...a covered healthcare provider must obtain the individual's consent, in accordance with this section, prior to using or disclosing protected health information to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations."
2002 HHS amended the HIPAA "Privacy Rule", eliminating the "right of consent".
"The consent provisions... are replaced with a new provision...that provides regulatory permission for covered entities to use and disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, or health care operations."
Download the Elimination of Consent as a PDF file. http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/sit ... docID=1901
HIPAA - The Reality
The "Privacy Rule" Became the "Disclosure Rule"
HIPAA produced absurd results because patients were no longer asked what medical information they wanted shared and what information they wanted to be kept private. Barriers were created that patients didn't want, and access was granted to private corporations, individuals and government agencies that patients would never have agreed to.
Even more damaging, the amendments to the "Privacy Rule" opened the nation's sensitive health records to millions of providers, employers, government agencies, insurance companies, billing firms, transcription services, phamacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical companies, data miners, creditors and more for any "routine" use.
1. You will not receive any notice of "routine" use and disclosure of your health information.
2.There are no audit trails of "routine" uses and disclosures
3. Access to you health record is retroactive, regardless of whether you paid out-of-pocket or were guaranteed privacy at the time. This means your health records from birth to death are available to others.
-
Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
-
We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
I did the easy thing and googled it and came up with this:
Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 134 / Wednesday, July 14, 2010 / Proposed Rules
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/nprmhitech.pdf
"Proposed" rules? That could mean years!
I haven't read all the 'proposals'. And even when I do----- (grin) will I understand it?
The 'gobbledegook' language is so different from the gobbledegook language of science articles, which I learned to read after way too much practice.
AND will it actually change the privacy concerns of the average person? There can be many amendments that don't address that even though the word privacy is used.
Who, me? Suspicious?
http://www.hipaasurvivalguide.com/hitech-act-text.php
"Concluding Comments on the HITECH Act
First we need to emphasize that coverage of the HITECH Act as provided in this guide includes only a small subset of the Act's content that may be relevant to providers"
"Except as otherwise specifically provided, the provisions of part I shall take effect on the date that is 12 months after the date of the enactment of this title."
I still don't know when or if that enactment took place. (Maybe 2009?) And Hitech is more concerned with providers than with patients, which is not a bad thing.
Seems a date (2014) for full compliance for providers is given.
So, I'll leave this thread for now so DS can get back to it's business as usual.
I believe too, but don't quite me on this, that the proposed rules you mentioned are to implement some of the the statuary requirements under HITECH. That's usually how it works- statutes are enacted, and then regulations follow to provide more details on clarification and implementation.
HIPAA itself is a HUGE law with many pieces, so its easy to just think about HIPAA specifically related to privacy. And frankly many people, including the covered entities it impacts, misinterpret the privacy and private health information provisions of HIPAA.
That's all I'll say about that for now, considering I don't want to start interpreting laws here. Most people don't actually know what a law means or says or anything, and of course, why would they. If they haven't read it or understand the industry, then it stands to reason they don't get it. Part of it is also because most news sources get it wrong, and even most elected officials who vote on some of this stuff really don't get it. That's what happens when you get too much rhetoric and oversimplification, coupled with the fact that there are 1000s of pages of laws to read and then you have to actually understand what you're reading. But who wants to do that when we live in a sound bite world, and rely on that for our information.
But I digress.
*** just dont believe your medical records are private like they tell us***
I don't. I'm sorry you're having to find out personally.
I've read a lot of 'laws' proposed laws, amendments, appropriations committee 'stuff' and know that if you don't keep your critical and suspicious mind on full alert those suckers will whip something right past ya. LOL
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/index.html
(Use the links within that link to get full information)