title: The HIPAA lurks. Just when CIOs thought it was safe for business as usual....
abstract: Just when healthcare chief information officers thought it was safe to return to business as usual, along comes the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Those regulations, which will require providers to reconfigure patient records into an electronic format, will be anything but simple for hospitals, systems and insurers.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shinkman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003219:Confidentiality; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008331:Management Information Systems; D014481:United States; D014941:Work Simplification