AHIMA May 31, 2024
Health information (HI) professionals will be working on several fronts to comply with a new federal rule that affords patients and healthcare providers additional protection from investigations related to reproductive healthcare services.
Responding to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that eliminated a woman’s federal right to an abortion, the Biden-Harris Administration, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued a final rule in April to shield health information potentially related to reproductive healthcare contained in medical records from law enforcement seeking to use it against a patient or provider.
“The provider-patient trust relationship is crucial for patients to receive the best care possible. When patients aren’t able to trust their...
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