HIPAA Compliant Chat Being available to your patients 24/7 isn’t practical for most healthcare practices. Chat services can provide a response option or even resolution until normal business hours resume. Additionally, chats can offer initial patient care or registration services. As a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate, you must consider compliance when offering this service....
An Indirect Hit The NHS, or National Health Service, is the publicly funded healthcare system for the United Kingdom. They are supported by Advanced who is a managed service provider (MSP). Healthcare companies may outsource their IT departments to other companies to manage the cybersecurity and technical aspects of the business. This allows them to...
Portability in HIPAA There are many aspects of HIPAA. And sometimes there isn’t a clear understanding of what it covers. We also find that it is the “P” that often trips people up. Because of the strong emphasis on confidentiality, security, and safe handling of information, there is an assumption that the word Privacy is...
Health Care Cybersecurity Update on Guidance The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided updated guidance for the health care industry. Designed to help with electronically protected health information (ePHI), they have created a new draft titled Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule: A Cybersecurity Resource Guide (NIST Special...
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as ADA. This Act is in place to prohibit discrimination against any qualified individual. As outlined on the ADA National Network site, it ‘is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of...
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