HIPAA Health Information Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules
Popular Questions
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...
23 votes 17 commentsPHI request throu...
I understand there is some ambiguity regarding providers communicating PHI with patients, and I'm having some trouble interpreting how it applies t...
9 votes 4 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...
7 votes 1 commentsCan HIPAA address...
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 commentsNew Questions
Facility Directories
Can someone elaborate on what is allowed for facility directories under 164.510? The regulations say the directory can give the recipient the loca...
1 votes 1 commentsDevelopers have f...
We are a small company but have our software in over 100 large hospitals. Our developers have full read-write access to all data in the production...
1 votes 1 commentsHomegrown database
Looking to create a database for managing patient information - not accessible to patients or non-clinical staff. The data will be MD5 encrypted e...
2 votes 0 commentsCould 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 ...
1 votes 0 commentsRandom Questions
Birthweights/Ages
Certain pediatric tasks require fairly precise ages, for example when evaluating jaundice one must know a baby's age in hours. What precautions ar...
1 votes 1 commentsFacility Directories
Can someone elaborate on what is allowed for facility directories under 164.510? The regulations say the directory can give the recipient the loca...
1 votes 1 commentsOn Premise Interf...
I work for a software manufacturer that produces software that interfaces our customers various clinical systems to their EHR's and other applicati...
1 votes 0 commentsHIPAA Program Com...
This was addressed on your old FAQ page for a number of years and it seems to have disappeared. Can "open format" postcards still be used to remind...
2 votes 0 comments