November 7, 2017 HIPAA Compliance & the Use of Technology With more medical staff using personal mobile devices to send and collaborate on patient issues, it is [...]
November 6, 2017 Risk of Using USB Drives to Store PHI Emphasised by Data Breach The Man-Grandstaff VA Medical Center located in Spokane, WA has noticed that two USB drives containing the [...]
November 5, 2017 Securing Patient Information (PHI) HIPAA requires healthcare groups and their business associates to configure safeguards to ensure the [...]
November 5, 2017 Does HIPAA Require Identity Theft Protection Services to Be Offered to Data Breach Victims? The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule obligates covered entities to issue alerts to individuals after their [...]
October 30, 2017 Hospices & HIPAA Compliance HIPAA compliance is not usually simple in the healthcare sector industry, and HIPAA compliance for hospices [...]
October 14, 2017 What do a HIPAA Business Associate and HIPAA Covered Entity have in common? The terms covered entity and business associate are used widely in HIPAA legislation, but do HIPAA business [...]
October 11, 2017 Visiting Nurses and HIPAA Compliance HIPAA compliance for visiting nurses works identically as if tdoes for any other medical professional, even [...]
October 10, 2017 HIPAA Compliance for Email HIPAA compliance for email has been a much discussed topic since amendments were enacted in the Health [...]
October 10, 2017 Text Messaging & HIPAA Compliant Encryption From the time Final Omnibus Rule enacted changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [...]
October 7, 2017 What Does HIPAA Refer to? What does HIPAA refer to? HIPAA is an acronym of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – [...]