NCHICA prepared a white paper titled "Guidance for Identifying Designated Record Sets under HIPAA". (does anyone have the link?)
The paper describes the obvious records...medical and financial. It also describes other catagories that are very broad such as "working records" (telemedicine, coding worksheets, utilization review worksheets etc.), and records/information collected on your behalf by a Business Associate and health information in all types of media (paper, oral, video, etc...) when such information is created or maintained for the purpose of making decisions about individuals... In my opinion, this sounds like the designated record set can be huge and we had better know where all those little pieces of information reside in case someone invokes their right of access. I see us doing some serious centralization of information. Catherine Lohmeier HIPAA Project Consultant XANTUS Healthplan of Tennessee -----Original Message----- From: Dee Warrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:46 AM To: Austin, Leah; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Designated Record Set Leah -- I am not sure what type of a response you are expecting from anyone but here it goes one example of how we are determing a designated record set... We are modifying our existing system to support the ability to view or print a member's PHI that we use to make decisions regarding an individual for utilization management. For example, I use 9 out of the 18 individually identifiable health information identifers to approve an authorizaton. These 9 identifiers become our designated record set that we used to make a decision about the member. We are applying the same rule in any situation where we may make decisions for a member. Hope this helps, Dee Warrington Director, HIPAA & Regulatory Compliance OAO Health Care Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Austin, Leah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:34 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Designated Record Set Has anyone determined what their designated record set will/would consist of? Leah Leah Austin, HIPAA Trainer HIPAA Team AMERIGROUP Corporation 757-473-2737 Ext. 3461 Fax: 757-233-9897 Website: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, go to: http://snip.wedi.org/unsubscribe.cfm?list=privacy and enter your email address. The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. Posting of advertisements or other commercial use of this listserv is specifically prohibited. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, go to: http://snip.wedi.org/unsubscribe.cfm?list=privacy and enter your email address. The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. Posting of advertisements or other commercial use of this listserv is specifically prohibited. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, go to: http://snip.wedi.org/unsubscribe.cfm?list=privacy and enter your email address. The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. Posting of advertisements or other commercial use of this listserv is specifically prohibited.
