Law & Malpractice

Kevin West is a founding partner, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technical Officer for Full Media, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based digital marketing agency specializing in health care. Full Media offers a full spectrum of HIPAA-compliant digital marketing capabilities within the healthcare space, including website design, online advertising, SEO, patient experience optimization, and analytics.

Articles

Here’s how to find out if your website complies with the privacy law.

Is your website HIPAA compliant? 

Hoala Greevy has over 20 years of experience in the email industry, dating back to his first job out of college at Critical Path in San Francisco in 1999. Prior to founding Paubox, Hoala started Hawaii’s first SaaS company (Pau Spam) in 2002. Hoala holds two patents related to email security. An avid kayak fisherman, Hoala has caught three blue marlin from his ocean kayak Scupper Pro. He also holds the IGFA world record for the finescale triggerfish.

Cybersecurity best practices for email communications

, a HIPAA-compliant business texting solution. If your practice wants to start texting customers, Text Request can give you all the tools and resources you need to create a safe and successful text messaging strategy.

While texting can make things a lot easier (and more profitable), it can also be easy to unknowingly violate HIPAA regulations.

Avoid these HIPAA mistakes when texting patients

 advises clients on compliance, transactions, government administrative actions, and litigation involving healthcare, cybersecurity, corporate and securities law, as well as False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases. She also teaches bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Rachel can be reached through her website, 

As more states enact biometric laws (although none are as robust as Illinois), healthcare AI companies, covered entities, and business associates should take note and take steps to update compliance programs in order to reduce the risk of a lawsuit and a potentially criminal HIPAA violation.

Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence

Understanding what should be included in a required HIPAA BAA is essential.

Breaking Down the Business Associate Agreement

Email is one area ripe for AI innovation.

How email AI can help your practice thrive

With cybersecurity and criminal government actions involving protected health information (PHI), now is a good time to understand the importance of the required Business Associate Agreement (BAA).


HIPAA: Back to basics with the BAA

 Chattanooga, Tenn.-based digital marketing agency specializing in health care. Full Media offers a full spectrum of HIPAA-compliant digital marketing capabilities within the healthcare space, including website design, online advertising, SEO, patient experience optimization, and analytics.

These three efforts are some basic steps that will go a long way toward ensuring you accomplish your marketing goals while still maintaining patient privacy.

How to eliminate sneaky sources of HIPAA violations in your marketing efforts

If you leverage the right business partners for your email, you can both mitigate risk and provide seamless communication to your patients.

Staying on the right side of HIPAA with your email communication

Podcasts

Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Parisi, Vice President of assurance strategy and Community Development at high trust Alliance, about how physicians and practice owners can discern whether or not communications technology they are interested in integrating into their practice is certified secure. 