Washington State’s experiment in consumer-controlled health records has moved into a pilot phase, transforming the health record banking model from theory to testing. Earlier this month [...]

Many in healthcare still haven’t made their peace with HIPAA’s accounting of disclosure requirements—the provision under which covered entities, upon request, must provide patients with a [...]

Mixed in with the billions of dollars for health IT in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are new privacy and security regulations for using it. [...]

A 19-year-old college student uses her university clinic for gynecological visits. Her parents contact the clinic and ask to see her health record in order to [...]

AHIMA has posted reviews of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The law, previously known as the stimulus bill, allots approximately $19 billion to promote the [...]

There won’t be a delay on the ICD-10 final rules, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The final rule for implementing ICD-10-CM and [...]

Google Health, the Internet giant’s free online personal health record service, is nearing a year old. This week the company rolled out some changes to the [...]

Several days ago the New York Times featured an article titled “How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality.” EHRs and their challenges have become a [...]