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A prospective client asked for our help after receiving a HIPAA audit letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). OCR sent the client the letter after one of the client’s business associates experienced a HIPAA related breach. I won’t give any additional information on the client, the business associate or details of the security...
There is an insightful article over at WonderHowTo written by an IT security professional and forensic investigator. The article looks at ways to prevent hackers from accessing important information online. Specifically the article focuses on how to create strong passwords that will reduce the likeliness that your account will be hacked. All passwords can be...
The following is a guest post by Asaf Cidon, CEO and co-founder of Sookasa Healthcare providers across the country are quickly learning how useful cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive can be. These services allow practitioners to store documents in the cloud, share them with other users, and automatically synchronize the latest...
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Physicians Practice. July 28, 2014 | Law & Malpractice, Mobile, Patient Relations, Risk Management By Shelly K. Schwartz Patients prefer it. Medicare’s meaningful use program requires it. And within a few years, health information technology analysts predict that electronic communication will be par for the...
The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has a frequently asked questions document (PDF) on the disposal of protected health information (PHI). Below are some of the highlights of the guidance: What do the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules require of covered entities when they dispose of protected health...
Good infographic on the need to implement secure communications to protect patient information Original infographic can be found at TheConnectedClinician.com [divider_line] [divider_line]
One of our medical practice clients contacted us regarding a breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) by their billing company. The client received a letter from the billing company’s attorney stating that 60 of the client’s patients had their information breached when the billing company’s file server was compromised. The PHI included treatment reports, name,...
The post appeared on June 26, 2014 in EMR & HIPAA It’s one thing to have a laptop stolen with 8,000 patient records or for a disgruntled doctor to grab his patients’ records and start his own practice. It’s another when the Cosa Nostra steals that information, siphons money from the patient’s bank account and...
Here is a quote from one of our IT partners: My client got physically upset at me when I brought up the topic of HIPAA. They didn’t want to discuss it and said it was just another government regulation and they just want to practice medicine. While I was shocked to hear someone actually say...
Medical Economics has a very interesting and thought provoking article on sending patients text messages. The article is definitely worth reading in its entirety. Here are a few highlights: Any text message that involves the transmission of information that would be considered PHI, including information relating to the treatment of your patients, should be considered...
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