Health Information Privacy and Security Week 2008
February 21, 2008 at 6:14 pm (ahima, archive email, business, cms, data retention, Email Archiving, email compliance, health care, health information, healthcare, HIPAA, hipaa compliance, hipaa privacy, hipaa security, legal, message archiving, news, politics, security week 2008, thoughts, tony trenkle)
According to the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) website, the event often referred to as “hipaa security week” will be held April 13th – 19th, 2008. AHIMA states: “CONFIDENTIAL IS ESSENTIAL–Protect Health Information” is the theme for Health Information Privacy and Security Week 2008. This invaluable awareness event, held April 13th through 19, assures our communities that the industry takes extraordinary measures to put health information in the right hands and keep it there. It is a positive reminder of the importance every healthcare professional should place in this crucial aspect of medicine. A message that resonates throughout the nation’s facilities.”
With the CMS bearing down on the enforcement of HIPAA security compliance, this years health information privacy and security week will likely get taken a little more seriously. The protection of electronic patient health care data is an extremely important measure for our society to take, and I believe that the CMS’s current agenda is definitely helping the cause. Email compliance and email archiving solutions are necessities for health care professionals at this point, especially for those that do not want to deal with the repercussions handed down by Tony Trenkle and the Office of E-Health Standards and Services.
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