October 7, 2018 Fairview Southdale Hospital ‘Videotaped Patients’ Without Prior Knowledge or Consent Being Given The HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has conducted a review at Fairview Southdale [...]
October 6, 2018 App for Healthcare Messaging A healthcare messaging app is a common way of adhering with the HIPAA security and privacy rules relating to [...]
October 4, 2018 Do HIPAA Rules Establish Obstacles That Stop Data Sharing? The HHS has put together a Request for Information (RFI) to ascertain how HIPAA Rules are hampering patient [...]
September 30, 2018 HIPAA-Covered Entities Exempt from California Consumer Privacy Act Following Amendment In June 2018, the legislature in California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which [...]
September 30, 2018 Cloud Computing Platforms & HIPAA Compliance If cloud services are to be used by healthcare organizations for storing or processing protected health [...]
September 17, 2018 What is the Relationship between HITECH, HIPAA, and Electronic Health or Medical Records? Title 1 of HIPAA initially was formulate to deal with the portability of health insurance and protecting the [...]
September 12, 2018 SaaS & HIPAA Compliance HIPAA compliance for SaaS is one of the a range of HIPAA-related topics full of if, buts and maybes. In this [...]
September 10, 2018 Social Media Rules Under HIPAA HIPAA was developed many years prior to social media networks such as Facebook being launched, so there are [...]
September 7, 2018 Texting Policy for HIPAA A HIPAA texting policy is a document that should be put together after a risk assessment has been completed [...]
September 6, 2018 Improving Hospital Communication The challenge of how to enhance hospital communication is a difficult one, but one that can lead to [...]