As many of you know by now, Hurricane Earl has shifted to the west. It is not expected to make landfall, but will no doubt have a significant impact on the Mid-Atlantic and east coast regions. For simple steps your Firm can take to get ready, please see the attached "Hurricane Preparedness" document.&
Under HITECH, a Business Associate (BA) agreement is required for covered entities (e.g., your clients) who exchange protected health information (PHI) with their BAs. As a BA to your clients, your Firm is also required to have BA agreeements with vendors you exchange PHI with, such as offsite records, document production
Great... Just what we needed... NOAA Predicts Above Normal Hurricane Season
This is the second part of the topic - Great Crisis Leadership - Nature or Nurture?
Think Through an Emergency
One of my clients asked me and interesting question recently, and it led to some insightful and, at times, rather humorous discussion. "Can a crisis leader be trained, or are they born that way?" This is just my 2 cents….
On February 18, 2009, President Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Among other things, this health information technology legislation improves and expands current Federal privacy and security protections for health information.
One important intent of the law (among many) is to ensure that new entities not contemplated when the Federal privacy rules were written, as well as those entities that do work on behalf of providers and insurers (called "business associates"), are subject to the same privacy and security rules as providers and health insurers.
Here is the most recent update. Not much new thank goodness!
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_02_19/en/index.html
I know a lot of you are considering purchasing H1N1 vaccines for your personnel. Please read this important update and be sure and check the dates on the vaccines. Briefly:
For the truly geeky, here is what I think is an interesting article showing how the virus works within the body. Why I am now an uber-geek on this topic, is that I got sick with what I can only imagine was H1N1 about a month ago. Totally respiratory focused - bad bad stuff! I caught it after a flight where the guy behind me was hacking the whole flight (ple
