Recently, a case highlighted how one medical provider appropriately managed its HIPAA compliance by consistently enforcing its policies and keeping tabs on who accessed protected health information.

Mobile device use is becoming more commonplace in health care. Health care professionals use text messaging to communicate with each other about patient status. Medical schools now provide residents ...

The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

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The economic recession probably brought healthcare CEOs closer to their organizations' day-to-day activities. New federal HIPAA laws should have too. Daniel Nutkis, CEO of The Health Information Trust ...

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress into law in the year 1996. It is legislation that provides security provisions and data ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgent need to collect and store a significant amount of information about the health of the population. Employers began monitoring the incidence of COVID-19 ...

CATEGORY: Administrative Safeguards TYPE: Addressable Implementation Specification for Contingency Plan Standard CITATION: 45 CFR 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(D) The University at Buffalo Information Technology ...

The use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has revolutionized how healthcare is provided by allowing access to data and improving the coordination of care among medical professionals. But, the ...