Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID...
Tag - HIPAA Compliance
Earlier this month, I wrote a blog item laying out some of the problems Epic is facing in getting its clients to share de-identified patient data among...
The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google have been hit with a lawsuit contending that the hospital shared hundreds of thousands of patient...
When Microsoft ends support you will be unsecure and non-compliant Time is running out. And you probably don’t have the resources you need. Microsoft is ending...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business...
These days, it’s pretty much a given that providers will store some or all of their data in the cloud, i.e. off-site on a vendor’s servers. For many...
Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Mike Semel as the latest addition to the Healthcare Scene blog team. We’ve been working with Mike for...
The following is a guest blog post by Mike Semel from Semel Consulting. Check out all of Mike Semel’s EMR and HIPAA blog posts. What requirements have...
Planet HIPAA had this great article that shared 5 tips to ensure an effective HIPAA program. The reality is that HIPAA is a pretty flexible program that in...
The following is a guest blog post by Mike Semel from Semel Consulting. “Am I responsible for my client’s HIPAA compliance?” “What if I tell my client to fix...
