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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...
Millennials, roughly anyone born between 1980 and 2001, make up a vital demographic within modern he...
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...
Everybody knows that HIPAA violations can be costly, with penalties that can include seven-digit fi...