HIPAA

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.

Here's a look at five of the latest tablets with high-level security features for physicians.

Tech-savvy physicians and health information technology experts to tell us what's to come in 2014.

A new year brings new opportunities - and new challenges - to medical practices. Take our poll to let us know what challenge has you most concerned going into 2014.

Medical practices face many challenges in 2014. Here are 10 of the biggest.

A new year brings key changes medical practices need to know about. Here are five you should start thinking about today.

Here are seven important considerations when putting together a budget for your medical practice's IT needs for next year.

Here's a look back on what, technology-wise, made physicians' "hot" lists this year.

Ensuring a "chain of trust" is present with protected health information is essential for medical practices following the HIPAA Final Omnibus Rule.