The New Year is right around the corner and most of us will be thinking, as we do every year, about changing a few things in keeping with the spirit of the season. If one of those things is finding a better job in the HIPAA field we have done some of the work for you, finding once again some of the best opportunities out there.

Attorney -Group Health Insurance/HIPAA Job

Location: New Jersey

This Part-Time Attorney position will support Insurance Services daily legal needs including: carrier contract negotiations, HIPAA advice, Group Health and Workman’s comp Insurance advice and review of Business Associate Agreements and associated issues, assist in resolution of client issues, support insurance regulatory compliance processes and procedures, support product development with insurance regulatory reviews. Provide general business guidance as it relates to insurance regulatory and compliance matters. Advise on HIPAA compliance and update evolving policies and procedures as needed to maintain compliance with HIPAA.

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Clinical Information Project Manager

Company: Sanford Health

Location: Sioux Falls, SD

The Project Manager will gather, analyze, design, develop, modify, test, implements evaluates, and maintain clinical information handling technologies: That collect data to support clinical practice That use data to support clinical decision-making That provide for identification of outcomes To develop plans for achieving identified outcomes To assist and document testing, training, activation and implementation of the plan To provide for outcome measurement and evaluation To communicate project progress and outcomes to appropriate health system departments & personnel. These job duties will be carried out using a high level of customer service while promoting and participating in the team approach

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Director of Compliance and HIPAA Officer

Company:Berger Health System

Location:Circleville, OH US

The Director of Compliance/HIPAA Officer oversees the Corporate Compliance Program, functioning as an independent and objective body that reviews and evaluates compliance issues/concerns within the organization and serves as the HIPAA Officer for Berger Health System and its entities. The position ensures the Board of Governors, management and employees are in compliance with the rules and regulations of regulatory agencies, that organization policies and procedures are being followed, and that behavior in the organization meets the organization’s Code of Conduct. This person will also assure that processes, policies, documentation and training are in place for full HIPAA compliance.

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Patient Accounting Analyst – HIPAA 5010 compliance Specialist

Company :CyberCoders Engineering

Location:Chicago, IL US

What you need for this position:
• In-Depth understanding of Patient Accounting
• EDI experience including ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
• Expert knowledge of Implementation Guides for HIPAA 5010
• ASC X12 affiliations, work group involvement, and network of other EDI experts
• Familiarity with multiple patient accounting systems (such as MedSeries4, Meditech, Invision, Epic Resolute, Affinity, GE Flowcast, or Allscripts)
• Available for Travel Monday through Thursday

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HIPAA Compliance Program Manager

Company: First Solution USA

Location: New London, CT

Our client, located near the Connecticut shore offers a full-time, direct hire, permanent job opportunity. Highly visible leadership role with hospital seeking a Program Manager to ensure compliance with all aspects of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including but not limited to all current rules and regulations that have been instituted since the original act was instituted in 1996. The position requires development of a formal program that will ensure rapid implementation of new rules and regulations throughout the corporation, as well as ongoing activities that ensures this hospital is maintaining its compliance with all rules and regulations and actively working to reduce or to eliminate its exposure and risk in areas of non-compliance.
Reporting to the Vice President/General Counsel, you will influence, recommend and provide guidance and counsel to all leaders and staff within the hospital on HIPAA related matters.

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Is HIPAA as it currently stands really up to the task of protecting patient information as it should in its current form? After all despite a few revisions the majority of the legislation dates back to 1996, a time when the Internet was a novelty not an everyday part of almost everybody’s’ lives.

The simple fact is that barely a week goes by when the efficacy of the current HIPAA privacy paradigm in the new information age isn’t called into question by someone . For example:

In 2009 , a number of parents sued the Texas Department of State Health Services when they learned blood samples taken from infants for public health purposes, were used without parental consent for research. The suit finally led to the destruction of more than 5 million samples.
In February of 2010 , the not-for-profit news website Texas Tribune reported the same state program also provided hundreds of the infant blood samples to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory for the creation of a genetics database to be used for military, law enforcement and security purposes, causing further uproar.

In May of 2010 , PatientsLikeMe, a social-networking site for patients with serious and life-ending diseases ranging from depression to ALS, discovered, according to its co-founder, that it had been scraped of members’ information by an unauthorized data-collection service run by the Nielsen Co, the famous global marketing research firm. A Nielsen spokesman says it has since halted what he called a “legacy” practice.
Examples like this can be citied on and on. Issues such as these simply would not have existed in 1996 so never needed to be considered.
Deborah Peel is the practicing psychiatrist who founded the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation in Austin, Texas. To Peel, the HIPAA paradigm is obsolete and inadequate and needs to be replaced.

“You can’t draw a fence around who has sensitive health information,” Peel said in a recent interview with Modern Healthcare. “It might have made sense 20 years ago, but it is a model that doesn’t fit the realities of today. It’s based on an anachronistic view of the healthcare system, as if it’s totally separate from everything else in business and in life, and if technology has taught us anything, it’s that that’s not effective.”

What do you think? What would you see changed about the HIPPA statutes in the Internet age? Let us know in the comments.