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The assumption that telehealth is a young person's preference does not survive contact with the data...
Originally published in September 2016. The figures below come from surveys conducted in 2015 an...
Ordinary phone calls and traditional paper-to-paper faxes are generally not covered by the HIPAA Sec...
Elan Newman, MD, FAAD, is a board-certified dermatologist in San Diego who practices both in p...
Personal cell phones create HIPAA risk in seven common ways, including unsecured texting about patie...
Doctors worry that chasing patient satisfaction can conflict with good medicine, and at least one la...
Doctors can text patients in a HIPAA-compliant way; HIPAA is nowhere near an outright ban on texting...
The HIPAA regulations run to 115 pages and more than 60,000 words, which is why most providers worry...
HIPAA compliance comes down to six rules: standardize your coding and electronic transactions, get u...