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HIPAA @ IT Essentials 2003: Health Information Transactions, Privacy, and Security

Name: HIPAA @ IT Essentials 2003: Health Information Transactions, Privacy, and Security
Author: Roy Rada
ISBN: 9781901857191

by Roy Rada

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Review HIPAA@IT Essentials is excellent, it helps us to understand exactly what are the requirements. -- Nurit Weiss, Ph.D., Cathlab Project Manager, Mennen Medical SystemsHIPAA@IT Essentials is excellent, it helps us to understand exactly what are the requirements. -- Nurit Weiss, Ph.D., Cathlab Project Manager, Mennen Medical SystemsPacks more relevant data on HIPAA than any other book -- piercing and clear without tech speak. -- Robert Mehler, IT ExecutiveSpent most of my day reading HIPAA@IT it is the best material I have come across on the subject yet -- Ellen A. Robinson, Healthcare IT Director from Wayne, NJ United StatesStrongly recommend this book for all of those providers and health plan officials that has to comply with HIPAA regulation. -- Jaime Riera, Esq. from San Juan Puerto RicoWe all seem to be swimming in uncertainty around HIPAA, and this book shines much light on the subject. -- Joe Ahlers, Ahlers and AssociatesYour book HIPAA@IT Essentials has helped me enormously. -- Hillary Fernandes, Health Care IT Consultant on Kaiser Permanente projectthe best material I have come across on the subject yet. Very comprehensive, well organized, easy to understand. One-stop shopping -- Ellen Robinson, HIPAA Director, Quest Diagnosticsthe best material I have come across on the subject yet. Very comprehensive, well organized, easy to understand. One-stop shopping -- Ellen Robinson HIPAA Director Quest Diagnostics From the Publisher HIPAA @ IT Essentials 2003 provides a distillation of the vital points from its companion volume HIPAA @ IT Reference 2003. The two volumes have a similar structure, but the Reference volume is twice as long because it goes into more background and examples. The essential facts are here in HIPAA @ IT Essentials 2003. From the Author The chapter, top-level subsections typically begin with a Main Points list that mentions each main point of the subsection. The author typically identified one key clause in each paragraph and one key term in each paragraph. About the Author Roy Rada's education includes: B.A. Yale Univ.; M.D. Baylor College of Medicine; and Ph.D. Computer Science Univ. Illinois. He has served as Editor of Index Medicus at the National Library of Medicine and Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering. For the past 3 years he had devoted himself exclusively to HIPAA in his consulting, teaching, and research and serves as a Professor of Health Care Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He is the founding Chair of the Health Information and Management Systems Society HIPAA Special Interest Group with over 1,000 members. His 6 HIPAA books include the best-selling HIPAA books at Amazon.com. Roy has lectured about HIPAA at all of the HIPAA National Summits and at many major meetings of professional societies. He has trained US Air Force Privacy Officers, done a privacy gap analysis of a Blue Cross & Blue Shield organization, done security analyses for a hospital network, certified de-identification systems at two corporations, developed HIPAA security training certification examinations, designed HIPAA translators for two different companies, and serves on the HIPAA advisory board of numerous organizations.