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University health centers provide this support and basic services, like flu shots, and often more complex services such as lab work, imaging services, and exams. But would a student understand that by visiting its website? ahimafoundation.org/news/health-li…
On the #HealthLiteracy for #HealthEquity blog, @AHIMAResources member Alice M. Noblin, PhD, RHIA, CCS, PMP shares insights and findings from her study now published in the journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Both the @ACHA_tweets and the @AUCCCD support the #CuresAct Final Rule as a means to empower college students as consumers of health and mental health services and issued official guidance in May 2022. acha.org/documents/Reso…
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I’ve been contacted 2x just this wk—1 IRL acquaintance & 1 person I know only via Twitter—after they got imaging results in portal before their dr. They DM’d w/ screenshots, panicked, asking for help. I’m 💯 for pt access to #EHR, but #CuresAct implementation needs a MAJOR reboot
Whenever I have expressed concern about #CuresAct, #advocacy often tells me it’s still better. But it def was not better for these folks, nor for me dropping everything to help ppl who aren’t my pts, whose records I lack, & whose drs I don’t even know, i.e., it’s bad care. 😔
And I’m always happy to help patients, genuinely. I actually started using Twitter to be able to report out from #SABCS17 (I think) for #advocacy. But I don’t like providing bad medical care, & this is a set-up for doing so. We need a systems fix so pts aren’t left hanging…
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An interesting wrinkle of #CuresAct

Adhering to contractual requirements is *not* one of the 7 exceptions to information blocking.

Tagging the smartest health policy lawyers I know:

@HealthPrivacy @JodiDaniel @SavageLucia

(Joy Pritts has no Twitter handle?)
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Historically, when BAA terms or other contractual terms conflicted with rights possible under #HIPAA, BAA terms have been deemed to hold.

E.g., famously, even though a clearinghouse is a HIPAA CE & has all the rights and obligations of a CE...
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...Clearinghouses *also* act as BAs and receive data under a BAA.

Other #HealthIT entities are pure BAs but are also deemed #HealthIT by Cures and this NPRM
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