This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

Risk Concept Colorful Icons Set Regardless of the challenges a smaller group might have, a risk assessment is a baseline for any HIPAA program. The cost of this assessment is considerably less than a ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) addresses, among other things, the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information, referred to as “protected ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations have been widely discussed in the press and within the medical provider community. Doctors and hospitals have grown used to ...

Healthcare compliance is the process of following the laws, regulations and ethical standards that govern the healthcare industry. It ensures that healthcare organizations protect patient safety, ...

I’ve worked with healthcare organizations long enough to notice a pattern: Many treat HIPAA compliance as a finish line. Once they've checked off a few items, passed an audit or updated a document or ...

Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While many healthcare providers believe that improving the patient financial experience is a critical step for their ...

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Robert LaMagna-Reiter, vice president and chief information security officer at First National Technology Solutions, better known as FNTS, says healthcare organizations increasingly are using industry ...

<b>The Basic Question:</b><BR><BR>Can MS Access be implemented in an HIPAA-compliant way? If so, how?<BR><BR><BR><b>The Reason I Ask:</b><BR><BR>I have a client who is an agency that extends mental ...