Do you understand the protocol set by the standards for breach notification should
client PHI be lost, stolen, or otherwise inappropriately used or disclosed?
Not exact matches
«For example, our contract processing division (Consumer Attorney Contract Services) furnishes necessary
PHI retrieval forms (HIPAA & HITECH) and your
client's information to our medical record retrieval and review division (CARS) so the creation of your order happens in real - time, which helps speed up the entire process and saves law firms the labor costs of staff creating each order.
Because KoonsFuller, P.C., gathers, stores, and electronically transmits medical records (Protected Health Information —
PHI) in the course of our representation of our
clients, we are required to post a notice to
clients that their protected health information is subject to electronic disclosure.
Law firms have critical
client information, like
PHI, business agreements, and intellectual property.
If law firms take on covered entities as
clients that give them access to
PHI, attorneys must comply with all the relevant regulations.
These attorneys will need to safeguard the
PHI of
clients and business associates as closely as do the health care providers themselves.
The Privacy Official will photocopy and make available to
clients the form to Inspect and Copy
PHI
If those notes are kept separate from a
client's medical records, HIPAA requires that they be treated with higher standards or protection than other
PHI.