Unraveling the Risk Assessment
How to comply with HIPAA’s risk assessment provision.
How to comply with HIPAA’s risk assessment provision.
Secure messaging protocol allows for easy communication; meets HIPPA privacy, security rules.
In recent years, there have been widespread media reports of large breaches – millions of records compromised, followed by millions of dollars in fines.
Physicians should prepare carefully; consider finances, legal issues, and insurance.
Providers do not have to learn all of the new 68,000 codes in ICD-10. Here’s what steps they should take.
Researchers call for enhanced security as more patient information is stored online.
Since the inception of HIPAA, physicians have been required to disclose patient information to 2 places.
Article provides suggestions to protect physician from liability, accusations of patient abandonment
Physicians in recent years have had to contend with growing caseloads, decreased face-to-face time with patients, shrinking reimbursements, HIPAA demands, and other hassles. In a survey of 3,897 physicians, to which 2,556 (65.6%) responded, 45% of doctors reported high levels of fatigue, according to findings published recently in Mayo Clinic Proceedings (2015;90:194-201). Still, 71% expressed…
Practicing physicians spend much of their time dealing with things that have nothing to do with direct patient care, such as coding, filling out forms, dealing with insurance companies, managing staff and other administrative responsibilities, following provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and so on. These are realities of daily practice…