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YPSILANTI, MI - March 2, 2003 - Freedom Imaging Systems, Inc. (Freedom), enhances reporting capabilities to meet HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements. The Privacy Rule is to assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well being.
The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule) establishes a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the Privacy Rule to implement the requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of individuals’ health information, also known as Protected Health Information (PHI), as well as standards for individuals’ privacy rights to understand and control how their health information is used.
Freedom’s Record Image Capture and Retrieval (RICAR) system electronically stores documents such as laboratory requisitions that can be retrieved by multiple employees at any time. Freedom has implemented a reporting system that will allow the review of the use and disclosure of these documents. This report, searchable by accession number, creates a RICAR Activity Log Report displaying the date and time of disclosure, and the name of entity or person who retrieved the document containing the PHI.
Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, individuals have the right to request accountability of disclosures of their protected health information made using Freedom’s RICAR system. These reports are available by request for any of our customers. For additional information on Freedom’s Protected Health Information Policy, please call 734-327-5600.
About Freedom Imaging Systems
Freedom Imaging Systems, headquartered in Ypsilanti, MI specializes in healthcare and laboratory document management automation and solutions. Since 1995, Freedom has successfully implemented imaging-related solutions to the healthcare industry throughout the United States. Freedom designs, develops, sells, and supports a series of comprehensive document imaging systems that electronically automates document workflow while eliminating the manual handling of documents. Freedom uses the latest network methodologies to replace microfiche/file technology to retrieve and archive healthcare documents, laboratory requisitions and results.
For additional information please contact:
Freedom Imaging Systems
Phone: 734-327-5600
Email: information@freeimage.com
www.freeimage.com
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