HIPAA

From a sample patient dismissal letter to an RVU calculator; these 10 resources will help your practice operate in a more efficient and compliant manner.

Medical practices are no strangers to audits. But health IT audits are critical to the financial, legal, and operational success of your office.

Chances are you've heard about the Heartbleed Bug, but you may not realize the threats to your medical practice. Here's what you need to know.

Practices must consider the security of more than just mobile devices. Medical apps can jeopardize patient data if they are not encrypted.

The case against LabMD illustrates the dangers of using an unsecure network to share patients' protected health information.

Medical practices must become more aware of the HIPAA Security Rule and the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

While text messaging can be a fast and simplified form of healthcare communication, it is fundamentally flawed in terms of HIPAA compliance.

In this webinar, presented March 18, 2014, healthcare attorneys Ericka L. Adler and Rachel V. Rose provide tips to keep your medical practice HIPAA compliant.

HIPAA and meaningful use demonstrate the challenge today for healthIT: making PHI easily accessible for the authorized, and impenetrable for the non-authorized.

As a physician practicing where I live, I often interact with patients outside the office. Shouldn't I, and others, get compensated for that time?

Laboratory reports are integral to a medical record and a patient's care. Therefore, this is one area that practices should look at carefully.

How to ensure patient data and health information is protected when your physicians use their own devices at your medical practice.

More physicians are using their mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets for healthcare purposes. But not all are using them securely.

Mobile devices bring great benefits to healthcare, but they also pose great risks. Here's how to mitigate those risks.

An August FTC complaint against a medical laboratory indicates that medical practices could soon face more angst when HIPAA breaches occur.

Measures to protect privacy sound good in theory, but unnecessary protections raise the cost and lower the efficiency of legitimate medical record sharing

Physicians may need to send health records internationally. Dr. Eduardo Garcia Luna Martinez lends his perspective on Mexico's privacy laws.

Don't lament the end of Windows XP for your medical practice. With today's advanced technology, the road ahead is actually far better.

With the deadline for the end of support and updates for Windows XP, here are five important steps for your practice to avoid HIPAA and HITECH Act violations.

There are many myths about cloud IT services. Here, we dispel the major ones and provide a checklist for those considering a trip to the cloud.

Is compromising privacy ever fair to patients, even in the name of public safety? Weigh in and tell us your opinion.

HHS asserts that a proposed rule is trying to strike a balance between the individual privacy protections of HIPAA and public safety considerations.

Here's a sample confidentiality agreement practices can use with their vendors, courtesy of attorney Amy Fehn of HealthLawOffices.com.

Medical practices need to identify, document, and manage vendor relations more so than ever under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. Here are some steps to help.

Experts reveal common technology missteps that are putting practices at risk of HIPAA violations.