By Mark Hollis – It’s an accepted part of everyday life, people text, shop online, use social media platforms or browse the internet using whatever device they’re carrying or seated in front of, even at work.
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By Art Gross – Social media has become an incredibly valuable tool, whether for personal or business use, the need and desire to use social media has increased dramatically since it first stepped on the scene.
By Art Gross – Deven McGraw, deputy director of HHS OCR has announced that the department’s plans for initiating onsite audits is currently on hold and will remain so until more than 200 desk audits have been completed.
By Art Gross – According to an article over on tripwire, a covered entity is facing serious penalties after the Office for Civil Rights issued them a hefty fine for their failure to comply with audit procedures including review, modification and termination of users’ access.
By Matt Fisher – A healthcare organization compare a number of vendors, product features and gets close to choosing one. Just before making the ultimate decision, someone asks, what about HIPAA?
By Grant Elliott – Having patients feel safe sharing sensitive health information is critical to the future of informed population health. How can you ensure that you are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when sharing this information with 3rd parties?
By Jim Johnson – With all the recent turbulence in healthcare surrounding Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and now the transition to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, HIPAA has flown under the radar, in a sense, for some practices.
By Marla Durben Hirsch – Providers continue to be confused as to how to dispose of their trash without running afoul of HIPAA. But the stakes are now higher – because it’s often the provider’s trash collector that’s exposing the patient data that’s in the garbage.