Learning Legal Best Practices and Documentation

Whether or not it is convenient, HIT technicians must deal with legal issues. You need to make sure you are covered for all possible legal issues, so if any issues come up you will be prepared. Best practices and documentation need to be established for HIT technicians because of the necessity to be prepared for a legal issue. For example, HIT technicians are responsible for having the ability to audit all PHI accessed. With the ability to audit activity in information systems, if someone in the hospital violates HIPAA by viewing a patient’s record they should not, the IS can track who accessed the e-PHI that was violated. As another example, when you depend on a vendor to support the equipment in the lab, a contract with the vendor is nee....