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Docs, patients ready for online tools

Can’t say this is surprising news, with so many other businesses offering online registration, scheduling and other services, why not medicine? Physicians and patients alike are ready to move...

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Health industry lacks patient data safeguards: poll

While this isn’t surprising in and of itself, it does speak to the issues and the complexities of utilizing technology in healthcare.  Securing your operations is time consuming and can be expensive,...

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7 tips to avoid HIPAA violations in social media

While this may seem like common sense to most people, you’d be amazed at what gets posted on Facebook and other social media sites.  If your organization doesn’t have a social media policy, I’d highly...

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Case study: 21K patients affected by data theft at orthodontics practice

Though it can sometimes get tiresome reporting breaches of this nature, it also stands as an example of how even the simplest precautions, such as using encryption on the patient data, could have...

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Sutter Medical Foundation patients’ privacy breached

This one is going to hurt, given the size of the data breach.  A password protected laptop with unencrypted data?  There will be lawsuits since allowing this much data to be placed on laptop in an...

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Dr. Michael Kaplan Teaches Compliance With HIPAA Guidelines; Encourages...

While this is a press release, it’s good to see physicians take information security seriously.  It’s good for them and good for their patients. Doctors who do place value on information security and...

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Exposure Disclosure Liability and Accountability

Some very sound advice here.  HITECH has put some bite in HIPAA and to ignore your responsibilities is to tempt fate.  With the number of random audits by CMS increasing next year and thereafter and...

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An interesting take on the use and distribution of personal information.  I know I tend to take a “don’t share” view since that’s the predominant model in both healthcare and HIT (and it’s a little bit...

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Do electronic records pose new ethics challenges? (For Dentist?)

Even though EHRs in the dental profession aren’t new, there seems to be a misnomer among some in the field that somehow HIPAA really doesn’t apply to them.  Where this belief comes from and why it...

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Secure Texting In Healthcare – Ways to Keep Patient Information Private

This is an area that troubles most practices.  Texting is so ubiquitous and pervasive today, it’s a matter of time until a HIPAA violation results from its use.  If you are using texting at your...

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