For healthcare professionals, exercising a certain level of care can prevent most HIPAA violations on social media. Taking care not to divulge personal information or health details about patients is a big step in the right direction. Keeping an eye out for less obvious violations is also important. In this guest post, Melanie Purkis, product […] [MORE]
HIPAA Compliance in the age of mobile messaging
December 24, 2019 Comments (0)
Mobile messaging offers the healthcare industry a simple and cost-effective way to communicate ePHI, but it also introduces a variety of security risks. In this guest post, Ian Reither, COO of a company that provides a cloud-based platform that offers access to carrier grade voice services over the internet, identifies what those risks are and […] [MORE]
How merchant services software can improve the efficiency of healthcare payment systems
May 14, 2019 Comments (0)
Considering national healthcare spending is projected to increase by 5.5% per year from 2017 to 2026, security and efficiency are more important than ever for today’s hospitals. Existing healthcare payment processing solutions are often outdated, cumbersome and need to be revamped to reduce costs and provide better patient experiences. Some of the main areas that […] [MORE]
Mitigating eDiscovery challenges in the healthcare industry
February 5, 2019 Comments (0)
At this point in technological advancement, almost every industry is producing myriad terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) daily. And that means when litigation arises, there’s an ever-growing number of documents that need to be collected and analyzed for admissibility and relevance in the case. That process of electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, can come with […] [MORE]
How your business can ensure HIPAA-compliant backups
July 3, 2018 Comments (0)
HIPAA compliance doesn’t stop at the data you’re actively using. It applies to everything in your organization – up to and including your backups. In this guest post, Tim Mullahy, executive VP and managing director of an enterprise class, tier 3 data center, explains how to ensure you aren’t caught off-guard by that fact […] [MORE]
HIPAA: It’s not as black and white as you first thought
May 23, 2017 Comments (0)
It was a feat in and of itself to become HIPAA compliant. Staying compliant is a whole other ball of wax. In this guest post, Gene Fry, VP of technology and compliance officer at a developer and provider of HIPAA compliant document workflow and collaboration tools, identifies areas of HIPAA hospitals have to pay special attention to.
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