tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 21

Patient Privacy: Peeking at Patient's PHI? Soon, They May Know You Did It

HHS proposes giving patients access to a list of providers who accessed their records.If you've ever been tempted to access a patient's PHI for non-medically necessary reasons, you now have a more official reason not to give in to that temptation.A new HHS proposal, published in the May 31 Federal Register, will offer patients a way to combat the growing concern of medical records privacy, by allowing them an "access report"--which lists the specific people who electronically viewed their protected health information (PHI).The HIPAA Security Rule already requires covered entities to track access to patients' electronic...

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