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 [...]
