HIPAA Health Information Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules
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Text messaging an...
There is currently a lack of clarity about whether patient consent to communicate via (unencrypted) SMS is adequate to protect covered entities fro...
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Developers need better guidance around patient generated health data, since HIPAA focusses on one-way data sharing from a provider/other covered en...
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I understand there is some ambiguity regarding providers communicating PHI with patients, and I'm having some trouble interpreting how it applies t...
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There is a lack of transparency around the content of Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), a lack of sample BAA language around the topics develop...
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We have a question regarding a vendor that claims that they don't need a BAA as they are a "conduit" and are exception. Is there someone at the OCR...
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I am a student creating an app for school project. I was wondering if I have to be HIPAA compliant. I am creating an app, where diabetics can store...
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What kind of limitations on role-based access does an EHR have to provide in order to comply with the “minimum necessary” standard? For example, if...
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A physician provides their patient with a medical device (like a CPAP or Glucose Meter). The company that created the medical device wants to moni...
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Our EHR solution is partnering with another health related software company with a cloud based API product to provide additional solutions for prov...
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In order to be HIPAA compliant, should all activity that occurs with in an app be logged, or should activity that exceeds the normal threshold be l...
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I would like to know if I offer an online appointment scheduler to health care providers, would the system and I, as the programmer/manager need to...
4 votes 7 commentsEHR Continuity in...
Private Practice Physicians have the opportunity by contracting with a large health care entity to get into electronic health records EHR. In want...
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