Telehealth Services Beyond COVID-19
At the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients have turned to telehealth services in lieu of traditional doctors visits. To increase access to telehealth services, the Department of [...]
Telehealth Security: Using a VPN
There has been much debate on whether or not telehealth offers a secure means of communicating with patients, especially with many providers seeing patients virtually from [...]
HIPAA Compliant Call Recording
Providers may want to record conversations that they have with patients to refer back to for treatment purposes. However, there are certain restrictions placed on recording protected health information [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Facility Directories
The HIPAA Privacy Rule generally permits hospitals and other healthcare facilities to maintain facility directories that provide certain basic information about patients within the facilities. The [...]
4 Tips: HIPAA Compliance for Small Practices
Healthcare organizations of all sizes must comply with the standards set forth by HIPAA. Although HIPAA mandates the same regulations for different sized healthcare organizations, the implementation of how [...]
Study Shows Improvement in HIPAA Right of Access Compliance
The HIPAA Privacy Rule’s “Right of Access” provision requires providers to make patient medical records available for viewing, inspecting, and copying. In early 2019, the Department of Health and [...]
HIPAA and State Public Records Laws
State public records laws, also known as open records or freedom of information laws, provide for certain public access to government records. However, HIPAA requires covered entities to take [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Institutional Review Boards
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). FDA regulations provide for review and monitoring of biomedical [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Provider to Provider Communications
The HIPAA Privacy Rule allows for provider to provider communications - for providers that are part of a patient’s care team - to exchange clinical information, [...]
National Doctor’s Day
In honor of National Doctor’s Day, Compliancy Group would like to recognize the incredible work that healthcare providers do every day. In today’s uncertain times, doctors are on the front [...]
