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Advocate Health to pay largest HIPAA settlement
From the original article: Modernhealthcare.com Advocate Health Care has agreed to pay $5.55 million to settle multiple data protection violations over the past three years, marking the largest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act settlement HHS has ever received. HHS’ Office for Civil Rights said the massive settlement was due to the extent and duration of ...
You might relate to this Short Story
Tom is visiting a dermatologist for the first time. The doctor asks Tom, “What medications are you taking?” This is not a simple question, and he has trouble recalling all the information: medication names, doses, how often he takes, and on and on and on. Oh, the most important question: “Who is the prescribing physician ...
Stop filling out paper forms at the doctor’s office
Do it Online! Wouldn’t you just want to go to your doctors appointment and have all your complete and accurate health history with you in an electronic format? That your doctor can review ahead of time and be prepared in advance? Your accurate and up-to-date digital health history is the most important part of the ...
Appointment Requests
Patients are able to request and book appointments, get confidential appointment reminders, and have access to change and modify upcoming appointments. Now you can create an account for free and bring world class HIPAA compliancy to your practice.
Do medical websites need to be HIPAA compliant?
The simple answer is “yes”. The first thing is to determine what experience you want visitors to have when they visit your website. If your website is just an online “brochure” then no, you don’t need to be HIPAA worried! But, if you want your visitors to send emails, request appointments, fill out forms, upload ...
Add HIPAA Compliancy to your website. You need it!
iMARSMED has created a set of tools that can make your website HIPAA compliant. It is actually a very simple process. You do not need to purchase and install enterprise security software, an SSL certificate, firewall, encryption, or the boogeyman to scare off the offenders. Let us show you how. Simply create an account ...
Do you need to have a Business Associate Agreement?
Get a Business Associate Agreement In either case you need to get a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) or a contract signed. The HHS.gov has this to say about it. “A covered entity is a provider such as a doctor, clinic, psychologist, dentist, chiropractor, nursing home, pharmacies …but only if they transmit any information in an ...
The 2016 Phase 2 HIPAA Audit Program
“The Office for Civil Rights, under HHS, is ready to begin the next wave of HIPAA compliance audits on covered entities. Find out what they should expect and how to prepare.” For details, please visit: http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/audit/index.html Data privacy and security is a key requirement for every healthcare professional. HIPAA requires all physicians to train their ...
Is your practice HIPAA compliant?
Supporting and implementing HIPAA compliancy is a key requirement for every healthcare professional. HIPAA requires all covered entities such as small practices to train their staff in patient privacy issues and establish policies for handling protected electronic patient information. Small physician groups that might have assumed they were exempt from government data-security regulations received a ...