HIPAA's electronic transactions rule: implications for behavioral health providers.

Electronic Money Laundering Detection in Transactions of Payment Service Providers

Under the coverage of legitimate commerce, criminals money-launder their illicit incomes through the payment gateways provided by Payment Service Providers (PSP). In order to do money-laundering forensics in transactions of PSP companies, a new method was proposed by Hojati et al which is done through detecting deviations from class behavior based on peer group analysis (PGA) method. Our experi...

A tripartite threat to medical records privacy: technology, HIPAA's privacy rule and the USA Patriot Act.

HIPAA administrative simplification: standard unique health identifier for health care providers. Final rule.

This final rule establishes the standard for a unique health identifier for health care providers for use in the health care system and announces the adoption of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) as that standard. It also establishes the implementation specifications for obtaining and using the standard unique health identifier for health care providers. The implementation specifications s...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the pharmacy benefit: implications for health plans, PBMs, and providers.

OBJECTIVE To summarize and analyze the key provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the impact on pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and others involved in the delivery of pharmacy services and managed pharmacy benefits. BACKGROUND HIPAA was enacted by Congress in 1996 with the goals of administrative simplification in the health care...

Electronic Health Records: Eliciting Behavioral Health Providers’ Beliefs [Brief Reports]

Interviews with 32 community behavioral health providers elicited perceived benefits and barriers of using electronic health records. Themes identified were (a) quality of care, (b) privacy and security, and (c) delivery of services. Benefits to quality of care were mentioned by 100% of the providers, and barriers by 59% of providers. Barriers involving privacy and security concerns were mentio...