Product Description

This book is organized into the following three main chapters:

Transactions and Codes,
Privacy, and
Security.

The Transactions and Codes Chapter relates to exchanges between healthcare providers and payers. The Chapter covers

transactions,
code sets,
identifiers,
impact, and
implementation.

The Privacy Chapter focuses on the relationship between patients and the healthcare system, and the chapter addresses

notice and authorization,
uses and disclosures
patient rights,
administration,
other regulations, and
impact.

The Security Chapter explains how to keep information safe and covers:

compliance life cycle,
real-world security policy;
computer security models; and
technical security mechanisms.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3267562 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 265 pages

Review
HIPAA@IT consolidated many principles and issues for me. I heartily recommend this work to my colleagues. -- John Lowenbergh, M.D.

I appreciate your authorship, as your books provide a thorough, yet accessible, description of HIPAA and HIS. -- Timothy Zevnik, HIPAA Program Manager, Molina Healthcare, Inc.

Managers of HIPAA implementation will save time and money by making HIPAA@IT Reference available to their teams. -- Jaime Alvarez, Healthcare Management Consultant, Coombes and Alvarez, Inc.

awesome, easy-to-read framework for the what, where, when, why, and how of HIPAA. completely logical way to learn HIPAA. -- Lilly Warren, Privacy Coordinator, Centegra Health System

From the Publisher
This book was published October 2002 to include the Privacy Rule Modifications of August 2002.

People need to understand the information systems ramifications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). They are eager

to get unbiased and comprehensive information about what HIPAA means for them. This book addresses that need.

Anyone working in or around healthcare could benefit by reading this book. The targeted audience is people in healthcare organizations that have some HIPAA or information systems responsibility. More particularly, managers in hospitals and information systems consultants should know the content of this book. The book also serves many others, such as nurses or radiologists, information systems staff within an insurance company, and salespeople in consulting firms. A company might use the books to help persuade staff about the relevance of HIPAA to company information policy and tools.

About the Author
The author Roy Rada, M.D., Ph.D. is an expert on health care information systems with doctorates in medicine and computer science. He is a professor of health care information systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, was Editor of Index Medicus, was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering, and has led the development of medical informatics standards.

Customer Reviews

Dr Joan's review on the best HIPAA book
"HIPAA@IT Reference 2003" by Roy Rada M.D.is probably the best HIPAA book even written. It gives all the details of HIPAA, the rules, the history of the legislation. For health information scientists it is a must! If you want to know everything about HIPAA, "Reference 2003" is for you!

Academia meets bureaucracy
This is not the book for you, if you are seeking a clear explanation of the HIPAA Security Rule and some helpful tips for implementing it in the real world. You would expect a book on HIPAA to clarify the baffling bureaucratic language of the original documents. However, Rada manages to obscure the subject matter further by heaping on academia and examples that don't quite hit the mark.

To be fair, I have found a few helpful nuggets in the text. However, these nuggets were buried in hundreds of pages of extremely unpleasant language. The sort of stuff that makes you want to pour gasoline on yourself and light a cigarette, or at least work on some other important project. I would be grateful to anyone who would write a book that gets to the bottom line: what do I need to do in order to comply with the rules?

worth the price, but 2 column text is very hard to read
Five (5) stars - The price is right.
Five (5) stars - The information is complete.
Two (2) Stars - Trying to read 2 column text on a monitor under 19' is impossible. You have to scroll down while you read the left column and then scroll back up to read the right column. I finally gave up and printed it out. Ink and paper cost bring the true cost back up to the paperback edition.
Summary - If the e-book were not 2 column, it would have been 5 stars all the way!