January 3, 2017 What does HIPAA’s “Minimum Necessary’ mean? The HIPAA minimum necessary standard is relevant for uses and disclosures of PHI that are allowed under the [...]
December 10, 2016 What is Referred to as PHI Under HIPAA HIPAA legislation regards PHI as considered any identifiable health information that is used, managed, kept, [...]
November 11, 2016 Are Your Medical Records Safe? We would like to think that our confidential medical records are safe and sound under digital lock and key; [...]
November 10, 2016 What is classified as a HIPAA Violation? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is legislation that was brought in make it [...]
September 9, 2016 HIPAA Compliance & Mobile Data Security Healthcare suppliers and other HIPAA-covered entities have embraced the mobile technology revolution, and are [...]
September 5, 2016 Sharing PHI Under HIPAA The sharing of Protected Health Information is not allowed as per the Privacy Rule, so if a CE wants to send [...]
July 17, 2016 What is the Civil Penalty for Unknowingly Violating HIPAA? Even thought the US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has the discretion to waive a civil penalty for unknowingly [...]
June 10, 2016 What is HIPAA for? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is considered as a groundbreaking piece of [...]
June 5, 2016 Employee Snooping Most Common Cause of HIPAA Security Breaches Having a mobile device stolen may lead to the largest exposures of Protected Health Information; however the [...]
May 7, 2016 Safe Healthcare Communications The requirement for secure healthcare communications was established with amendments to the Health Insurance [...]