HIPAA Wiki: A Brief Summary of HIPAA Rights
The Hawaiian language has a memorable equivalent of the English word for “fast”: “wikiwiki.” The term “wikiwiki” can be spoken quickly. Similarly, when a person looks up a “wiki” [...]
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 [...]
What is Health Information Blocking?
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on electronic protected health information (ePHI) sharing. The rule is scheduled to become [...]
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 [...]
HIPAA Media Access: Film Crews in Healthcare Facilities
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued several Notices of Enforcement Discretion during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, OCR will not [...]
HIPAA and Risk Assessment: Is a HIPAA Risk Assessment Mandatory?
Recently, many organizations have begun to wonder if a risk assessment is mandatory. This in part is due to misinformation on some websites that claim that a HIPAA mandatory [...]
Is Square HIPAA Compliant?
As more companies begin to accept non-traditional forms of payment, it is important to determine whether or not these payments are secure. This is particularly important for healthcare organizations. This [...]
HIPAA Photo Violations
HIPAA photo violations occur when healthcare providers release images of a patient without prior authorization. HIPAA requires organizations working with protected health information (PHI) to ensure [...]
HIPAA Privacy Rule: PHI Reidentification
Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, de-identification of protected health information (PHI) is the removal of specific information about a patient that can be used alone or in combination with [...]
