HIPAA Health Information Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules
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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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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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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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If my provider is communicating PHI and non-PHI with patients through a 3rd party SMS service, such as Twilio, would my provider be required to sig...
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If a client or parents of the client (Under 18) are out of the country can an email give permission to the clinician to speak with another third-...
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As a software developer in the role of business associate I have read about what needs to be captured and stored by software that handles PHI for a...
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I'm a web designer and have a client who has recently become hipaa compliant concerning his handling of email. He needed me to search his old email...
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The mental health organization I am working with wants to install cameras in an area where people receive services (so they are identified by face ...
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I am a compliance consultant, seeing an increasing amount of concern from cloud service providers about customers/users sharing PHI via their platf...
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There is currently a lack of clarity about whether patient consent to communicate via (unencrypted) SMS is adequate to protect covered entities fro...
23 votes 17 commentsHow to handle old...
I'm a web designer and have a client who has recently become hipaa compliant concerning his handling of email. He needed me to search his old email...
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I work for a software manufacturer that produces software that interfaces our customers various clinical systems to their EHR's and other applicati...
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