Articles by HIPAA guide

A dental practice has been fined $10,000 by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights for violating Health Insurance [...]

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 called for the Department of Health and Human [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has issued guidance for HIPAA-covered [...]

Healthcare providers are providing patients with copies of their medical records, but a majority have been [...]

A consolidated class action lawsuit against Premera Blue Cross over its 2014 data breach of 10.6 million [...]

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has proposed a settlement of $145 million to resolve alleged violations of [...]

The penalties for HIPAA violations are usually restricted to fines for the covered entity or business [...]

It has been 14 years since the HIPAA Security Rule requirements have been mandatory, but many healthcare [...]

The first dentist that was issued a fine for a HIPAA violation was Dr. Joseph Beck in 2015. His case served [...]

When did compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) become mandatory and [...]

Can medical practitioners use Google Home and Google Assistant? Is Google Assistant HIPAA compliant or would [...]

Can healthcare organizations use DocuSign in association with electronic protected health information (ePHI) [...]

Microsoft Teams is popular among businesses who use it to improve communication and collaboration, but can it [...]

Calendly is a well-known tool that many businesses use for scheduling meetings and appointments. Is it all [...]

Evernote is a useful cloud-based tool for taking notes, making to do lists, planning projects, and [...]

Google Keep is a cloud-based note taking application that allows notes to be created and shared across [...]

Both the Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general [...]

Return Path is an email marketing and optimization program that helps companies to put their email marketing [...]

Though there were HIPAA updates being considered by OCR in 2018, the pace of change is slow and it could well [...]

Does Mandrill support HIPAA compliance? Can healthcare organizations use MailChimp’s transactional email [...]

Marketo is an email marketing and lead management platform that has now been acquired by Adobe. Can [...]

SparkPost is a well-known email delivery and analytics program used by a lot of businesses for communicating [...]

JotForm is a software solution that can be used for making online forms. Can healthcare organizations use [...]

Constant Contact offers an online and email marketing solution which allow businesses to easily keep in touch [...]

If healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and business associates of HIPAA-covered [...]

MailChimp is an automated email marketing program used for sending marketing newsletters and emails to [...]

The term “HIPAA covered entity” wasn’t included in the Healthcare Insurance Portability and [...]

Zendesk is a provider of a customer service software program and support ticketing system. More than 200,000 [...]

To whom should HIPAA violation complaints be directed to inside a covered entity? If a healthcare employee [...]

California governor Jerry Brown has signed AB 375 – the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 – [...]

Is It Necessary to Archive Emails to Comply with HIPAA? Email archiving is not required by the Security [...]

The issue of HIPAA compliance for home health care workers can be complicated because of specific challenges [...]

One of the principal purposes of HIPAA is to ensure the privacy of patients is protected by making sure that [...]

Achieving Workflow Optimization in Hospitals The matter of improving hospital workflows is a senior [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released guidelines for medical device manufacturers who [...]

HIPAA compliance for HR departments is necessary for healthcare and health insurance companies, but even [...]

SharePoint is a web-based document management and storage system. It is one of the top collaborative [...]

WordPress is a well-known content management system used for creating websites. A lot of businesses use [...]

HIPAA Compliant Texting in Call Centers HIPAA compliance for call centers is an important concern for all [...]

There is a worrisome practice happening in healthcare centers throughout the country: The utilization of [...]

Stage 2 Meaningful Use, HIPAA Compliance and EHRs Stage 2 Meaningful Use elevates the standard on the [...]

Healthcare institutions and their business associates must be in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, [...]

The Administrative Safeguards of the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR 164.308) require all Covered Entities to [...]

This article answers one of the most commonly asked questions related to HIPAA – What is considered [...]

Should healthcare providers encrypt data in the smartphones they use? There is some misunderstanding [...]

“Does HIPAA Apply to Employers” is a question that has triggered varied responses because of the complex [...]

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is applicable to healthcare organizations and [...]

Objectives of HIPAA Privacy Laws HIPAA privacy laws were introduced in 2002 with the goal of ensuring the [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has confirmed to healthcare providers that using text [...]

The majority of Americans know that HIPAA relates to healthcare providers, but many people do not realize how [...]

A Colorado hospital is to pay OCR $111,400 for failing to terminate the access of a former employee to its [...]

Prairie Fields Family Medicine, based in Fremont, NE, is notifying 6,450 patients about the potential [...]