Got HIPAA? Get HIPAA? Joyce explains why and how
Interview with an expert in healthcare privacy and security, both on the federal side with HIPAA, and the state side, especially California law.
HIPAA compliance is not the end of liability for compromising patient privacy
You think you’ve got HIPAA compliance handled, in order to try to stay ahead of steep federal penalties, and then learn that is just the beginning of the story. HIPAA compliance itself is thorny. [...]
Five Steps to Meet HIPAA Obligations and Privacy & Security Compliance
Is HIPAA compliance a mystery to you? What do you have to do for HIPAA, and when?
Can HIPAA Compliance Derail your Healthcare Website or Digital Health App?
Worried about HIPAA compliance for your healthcare website or digital health app? Consider a class action privacy lawsuit that came—and went—against MDLive. MDLive received a class-action [...]
TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—PART 5: HIPAA
PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY ISSUES ARISE WHEN PRACTICING TELEHEALTH OR TELEMEDICINE JUST AS THEY DO IN A BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICE. IT’S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THESE [...]
When leaving a medical practice, can you take patient records?
When leaving a medical practice, can you take patient records?
Common HIPAA privacy and security violations flagged
Common HIPAA violations are flagged by HIPAA Helper, a publication of ProPublica,an "independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."
How Can A Healthcare Clinical Practice Bonus Its Staff, Employees, & Marketing Personnel Without Trigger Fee-Splitting and Anti-Kickback Issues?
Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?
Your Medical Spa Fire Physician or Physician Sue Medspa for Breach of Contract
A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?
Healthcare hacks and data breaches increasing, even as HIPAA compliance grows
Is your data safe? Healthcare hacks and data breaches increasing, even as HIPAA compliance grows. HIPAA training, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA manuals, HIPAA policies & procedures, HIPAA forms matter [...]
4 Key Compliance Trends for Physician Practices
Expect to see more and more compliance enforcement actions against physician practices - and also more physician awareness of how they can pro-actively manage liability and follow legal [...]
Do acupuncturists have to comply with HIPAA when they share an electronic medical record?
Whether HIPAA applies to acupuncturists who share a medical record, is one of those arcane questions our healthcare lawyers get. The answer isn't all that easy to obtain. Like many healthcare & [...]
Does HIPAA scale for a physician practice? Is HIPAA compliance mandatory?
HIPAA sounds like "hippo" for a reason: it's big, clunky, noisy, and unwieldy. Can, and should, a small physician practice implement HIPAA practices? HIPAA Is it worth the effort?
Does Wearable Tech Give Away Your Quantifiable Self? FDA Medical Device, HIPAA Privacy and Security, and Legal Issues Over Who Owns Your Data
Wearable health technology is here, creating new legal and regulatory questions about who owns the data, whether HIPAA applies and protects the privacy of your quantifiable self.
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Are you handling licensing, corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, standard of care, informed consent, HIPAA, liability, advertising, contract, FDA issues in your telemedicine venture?
When you launch any virtual, electronic, online, mobile, or other non-physical telemedicine or telehealth venture, you have to navigate several interlocking, overlapping legal issues, from [...]
Are your privacy and security practices HIPAA compliant?
Even if HIPAA doesn't technically apply to your wearable tech venture, mobile medical app, or telemedicine project, state laws have mirror privacy and security provisions with which your company [...]
Can you make HIPAA Privacy & Security easy for a small doctor’s office or other practice?
Making HIPAA compliance easy is like trying to catch a firefly in your hand. I'm also reminded of those really short video summaries of A Game of Thrones where you get a plot twist a second, and [...]
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5 Legal Issues for Integrative Health Practitioners in the new year
With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.
Telemedicine Rocks, AMA Says – Licensure & Standard of Care Still Thorny
The AMA now supports telemedicine, but insists on "safeguards" to help ensure the best patient care. While the AMA Policy on Telemedicine does not focus on legal issues, the telemedicine policy [...]
How to choose a healthcare lawyer or FDA attorney and regulatory consultant
The best way to select a healthcare lawyer or FDA attorney (or FDA regulatory consultant) for legal advice about your health and wellness service, practice, facility, or product, is to follow [...]
