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David Craig, MD, is an emergency medicine physician and CEO of Spruce Health. Spruce is a cloud-based healthcare communications company that powers modern, innovative medical care, including any type of care that occurs outside of face-to-face interactions and the four walls of the medical office. Dr. Craig has a particular interest and specialization in value-based care, emerging medical business models, novel communication modalities, telemedicine, and healthcare privacy, security, compliance, and regulation. Dr. Craig completed his medical training and residency at Stanford University and works clinically in the Bay Area of California.

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David Craig, MD

HIPAA sets the federal baseline for health information privacy, but many states have their own healt...
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...