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Article: Anything but idle; While some providers, stuck in neutral, wait for final HIPAA rules, Saint Luke's health system hits high gear preparing.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA))
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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All across the country, providers are waiting--and waiting--for federal rules on health privacy, security and information standards to become final once and for all, so they can finally get to work tackling a raft of regulations.
But you won't find any of that at Saint Luke's-Shawnee Mission Health System. Managers there are too busy working on myriad and time-consuming internal preparations necessary to implement all the rules, whatever their status.
There's no time to waste, they hasten to add. Every month spent in idle gear fritters away chances for providers to methodically prepare for requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and ...