Unraveling the Risk Assessment
How to comply with HIPAA’s risk assessment provision.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Physicians Slow to Adopt Direct Messaging
Secure messaging protocol allows for easy communication; meets HIPPA privacy, security rules.
What You Need to Know About An Information Breach
In recent years, there have been widespread media reports of large breaches – millions of records compromised, followed by millions of dollars in fines.
Transitioning to Private Physician Practice: Tips
Physicians should prepare carefully; consider finances, legal issues, and insurance.
Countdown to ICD-10
Providers do not have to learn all of the new 68,000 codes in ICD-10. Here’s what steps they should take.
Security Breaches of Health Records Rose
Researchers call for enhanced security as more patient information is stored online.
Ensuring Open Patient Access to Medical Records
Since the inception of HIPAA, physicians have been required to disclose patient information to 2 places.
How to Protect Yourself from Patient Abandonment Accusations
Article provides suggestions to protect physician from liability, accusations of patient abandonment
Would you choose to become a doctor again?
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…
The Business Aspects of a Medical Practice
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…
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