HIPAA Health Information Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules
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Text messaging an...
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...
6 votes 10 commentsIs a BAA required...
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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Could a covered e...
If a health care provider who is a covered entity were to create a general fitness/wellness app and silo off any collected data from their covered ...
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Healthcare providers place requests for interpreter services on a web portal that the state agency leases from a private vendor. Interpreters then ...
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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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A business associate provides no medical advice, medical services, medical devices, etc. But it talks to patients of the covered entity. Those pa...
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I email addresses of the users of the app, which are all doctors not patients, for authentication purposes. The application uses SSL encryption f...
2 votes 0 commentsHIPAA and FHIR
The introduction of FHIR to the 2015 CEHRT has opened the door for 3rd party applications to receive patient health information directly from an EH...
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I would like to know if I offer an online appointment scheduler to health care providers, would the system and I, as the programmer/manager need to...
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