By Art Gross – Every day in my newsfeed I’m alerted to yet another compromise to patient information. The headline isn’t always the attention-grabbing ones that we see when major credit companies or big-box retailers are exposed.
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By Chris Bowen – While the Capital One data breach was not targeted at the healthcare industry, characteristics of the attack have sadly become commonplace in health systems throughout the world.
By Matt Fisher – Questions around the state of privacy for healthcare and other information are being left unanswered in many regards. Many services and tools fall outside the “traditional” healthcare realm, which means HIPAA and state-level legal protections focused on…
By Grant Elliott – We hear about personal data breaches and cybersecurity attacks daily in the news. The California Consumer Privacy Act is one state’s answer to the outcry for individual data protection. Yes, it’s a just state law, but California has the world’s 5th largest economy and that means….
By Janet Rae-Dupree – Now that it’s upending the way you play music, cook, shop, hear the news and check the weather, the friendly voice emanating from your Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speaker is poised to wriggle its way into all things health care.
By Art Gross – A potential class action lawsuit has been filed against the University of Chicago Medical Center by a former patient, claiming his and thousands of other patients’ medical records were shared with Google without authorization and without removing identifying information.
By Lisa Ball – Medical coders are the unsung heroes of the healthcare industry. They are the link between the physicians and the payer that ultimately determine what the patient pays and what their treatment is. To those outside the industry, it may not seem like…
CMS has released a new infographic with step-by-step instructions for how to file a complaint about potential noncompliance with HIPAA Administrative Simplification requirements.
By Kayla Matthews – HIPAA is something that should be in the back of every health care professional’s mind. This act protects patient health information (PHI), but in a casual setting such as the home, it can be easy to overlook HIPAA and your responsibility to your patient.