HIPAA Medical Surveys
Frequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care ...
Read MoreFrequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care ...
Read MoreThe Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of 2008 was the first state law in the country to regulate biometric data use. For physicians, the intersection of laws such as BIPA and the fe...
Read MoreThe Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 brea...
Read MoreEmployee training is an integral piece of the HIPAA compliance puzzle, with a multitude of options available for the company that needs to get their people trained. But choosing the wrong training ...
Read MoreTo quickly summarize a very complex subject, HITRUST is an organization that helps regulate data security standa...
Read MoreThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has modified HIPAA retail pharmacy transaction requirements to differentiate between partial fill and full refills of opioids and other Schedule II...
Read MoreIt seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient’s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only ...
Read MoreA recent report found breaches caused by healthcare system misconfiguration due to human error in cloud infrastructures increased by 424%. The idea of security breaches often br...
Read MoreThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be...
Read MoreOn January 23, 2020, the D.C. District Court narrowed an individual’s right to request that HIPAA covered entities furnish the individual’s own protected health information (“PHI”) to a thi...
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