Psychiatry related information on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• Hype, hysteria and hucksters: HIPAA one year later [1].

High impact information on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• HIPAA privacy guidelines effective in April [2].
• Ethical considerations in healthcare research are paramount, but current HIPAA implementation strategies increase workload for HSC and researchers, and increase the dropout rate for proposed studies when investigators are unable or unwilling to meet the regulatory requirements [3].
• Inherited medullary thyroid cancer and the duty to warn: revisiting Pate v. Threlkel in light of HIPAA [4].
• Regular platelet counts and tests for the presence of heparin-dependent antibodies were carried out using two different tests: a quantitative platelet factor 4/ heparin (PF4/hep) Elisa, and a functional test, the heparin-induced platelet activation assay (HIPAA) [5].
• RESULTS: The implementation of HIPAA resulted in a 72.9% decrease in patient accrual (7.0 patients/wk vs. 1.9 patients/wk, P < 0.001), and a threefold increase in mean personnel time spent recruiting (4.1 hrs/patient vs. 14.1 hrs/patient, P < 0.001) and mean recruitment costs (49 US dollars/patient vs. 169 US dollars/patient, P < 0.001) [6].

Biological context of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• The heparin-induced platelet activation assay (HIPAA) assay was positive in 8/10 cases, whereas the PF4 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed a positive result in four of eight analyzed cases [7].

Associations of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act with chemical compounds

• Both the US Supreme Court's Jaffee v Redmond ruling and the HIPAA rule support the ethical protection of confidentiality of conversations between psychiatrists and patients [8].
• BACKGROUND: The combination of the implementation of the Healthcare Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the widespread publicity surrounding the report by the Institute of Medicine on preventable medical errors has increased interest of AOFAS members in the use of office-based electronic medical record (EMR) systems [9].

Gene context of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• HIPAA compliance: getting beyond the hype to real solutions [10].
• Medical image security in a HIPAA mandated PACS environment [11].
• An overview of the HIPAA Security Rule, Part II: Standards and specifications [12].
• The second part compared the effectiveness of learning the HIPAA content via CD-ROM to a text-directed, self study method [13].
• HSS proposes HIPAA privacy standards [14].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• The study findings demonstrated significant differences between experimental-group and control-group students' performance on a knowledge test of HIPAA, as well as overall satisfaction with learning the material by CD-ROM among students who used it [13].

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