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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 & [...]

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?

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen spoke on "Ancient Wisdom & Modern Technology" on ExitCoach Radio. Today, there are many healthcare and wellness related businesses popping up