August 19, 2018 What is the Aim of HIPAA? HIPAA legislation was first brought in 1996. In its initial form, the legislation assisted in ensuring that [...]
August 19, 2018 What it the Significance of HIPAA Important for Patients? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 – or HIPAA – is federal legislation that [...]
June 8, 2018 Can A Patient Take a Legal Action in relation to a HIPAA Breach? Can a patient take a legal action for a HIPAA violation? There is no private cause of action in HIPAA, so a [...]
May 19, 2018 HIPAA Authorization Defined The HIPAA Privacy Rule, which was brought in on April 14 2003, introduced standards in relation to allowable [...]
May 10, 2018 HIPAA Retention Requirements Explained The subtle differences between HIPAA medical records retention and HIPAA record retention lead to some [...]
April 19, 2018 Anonymously Reporting a HIPAA Violation Most healthcare groups go to great effort to ensure they are in compliance with HIPAA Rules, but sometimes [...]
April 18, 2018 Zoom & HIPAA Compliance Zoom is a cloud-based video and web conferencing solution that lets workers across many different locations [...]
April 2, 2018 New HIPAA Regulations and Legislation Changes for 2018 HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) director Roger Severino has indicated there are some HIPAA changes under [...]
March 18, 2018 Dropbox & HIPAA Compliance Dropbox is a widely-used file-hosting service implemented by many groups in order to share files. Dropbox [...]
March 18, 2018 What Does HIPAA Mean? PHI is a term commonly used in relation to health data, but what is PHI defined as and what information is [...]