HIPAA

Broader definition of personal identifiable information requires medical practices to review HIPAA compliance and adhere to security policies.

Your practice's business associates can lead to HIPAA issues. Here are three tips to ensure your vendors can ensure the safety of protected health information.

No business is safe from cyber attacks. Physicians can benefit from both performing due diligence and purchasing insurance to mitigate the risk of loss.

Even if your practice does not suffer a HIPAA breach of confidential patient data, being noncompliant can land you in hot water as well.

There are not always clear answers under HIPAA, particularly when it comes to mental health issues. Here is some guidance.

Medical providers need to be wary of vendors who sell compliance products. All companies who espouse compliance are not necessarily compliant.

Anyone involved with protected health information at your medical practice can be the one who gets you fined for a HIPAA violation. So due diligence is a must.

A HIPAA risk assessment can help your practice put safeguards in place to protect against both cyberthreats and cyberliability.

State case ruling indicates that patients may lack standing to successfully sue practices for potential damages due to a HIPAA breach.

Physicians sometimes fall behind in their paperwork and take work home to complete. Are you aware of the risks that raises for your practice?

The Stage 2 rules of meaningful use call for a security risk analysis of your practice. Here are some common sources of data loss to examine.

Physicians Practice's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, contains troubling findings regarding efforts to secure protected health information.

You lock up your house and car each day, so be sure to do the same with your digital assets. Here are six tips to start employing today.

HHS is working to craft an agreement to share public health information in the event of a pandemic between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Did you know, as custodian of your patients' protected health information, you are required by HIPAA to create a contingency plan?

When it comes to understanding why we need HIPAA compliance, government regulators are on one side of a very wide river, and physicians are on the other.

Perfect for the office bulletin board, here is an "Ode to HIPAA."

The ability to securely communicate ePHI to any provider at any other medical practice or hospital with any EHR may not be as far off as you think.

Roughly half of all medical practices have implemented EHR, but they still have a long way to go in terms of meaningful use and recovery audit contractors.

When crafting HIPAA security policies at your medical practice, don't overlook the broader information footprint.

HIPAA security provisions for protecting electronic patient data not only apply to medical practices but their business associates as well.

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.

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?