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Poll: How Important is Patient Privacy, When Public Safety is an Issue?
Is compromising privacy ever fair to patients, even in the name of public safety? Weigh in and tell us your opinion.
Recently, Practice Notes blogger and attorney Ericka L. Adler addressed an HHS proposal to modify HIPAA to permit physicians and other healthcare providers to disclose otherwise protected health information (PHI) of individuals with certain mental health conditions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without the individuals' prior authorization.
But is compromising privacy ever fair to patients, even in the name of public safety?
Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
September 27th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Nada Elbuluk, practicing dermatologist and director of clinical impact at VisualDx, about how cognitive biases present themselves in care strategies and how the industry can begin to work to overcome these biases.
Certifying Your Communications Technology is Secure
July 5th 2021Physicians 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.
