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Rita Bowen is a distinguished health information management professional and a long standing expert on topics of interest to the healthcare community. She currently serves as HealthPort’s Senior Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer where she identifies and further develops best practices for release of information and customer satisfaction.

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ROI in a Hybrid Environment

April 27, 2012

The transition to an EHR can cause havoc on the release of information process. Targeted ROI training and strong enforcement of policies and procedures to govern access and disclosure of PHI is needed when functioning in an electronic environment.

Click here to read the article, ROI in a Hybrid Environment, which appears in this month’s For the Record Magazine.  My colleague Kelly Quigg, HealthPort Product Manager, Interfaces, and I discuss the complexities of managing ROI in an electronic environment and how outsourcing the ROI function is one way to lessen the burden.

Is your facility utilizing an EHR? Do you outsource ROI? Feel free to comment on how you are managing the ROI function and what you’ve done or are doing to ensure the compliance of PHI.

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  • Nahla 06 Jun

    It matters very liltte about the IF a patient's name was actually mentioned the fact is, the world is a much smaller place than we all realize just discussing case information can be an identifying factor. Nurses talk with other nurses it is a fact of life- but the hows, wheres and whens of those discussions is a critical factor to be considered. Facebook, Twitter and all of the other here and now applications of our 21st century second-by second computerized world, are simply inappropriate places for such exchanges, even the casual email to a nursing friend across the country can be extremely risky ! We all understand the State and Federal regulations we sign Privacy agreements with our Employers so the any nurse who violates the regulations or those agreements, is lucky to ONLY be fired and not be fined, jailed or have their nursing license suspended or revoked! Wake up and Grow up, people! Do you want Your medical information discussed on Facebook?
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