The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA, is a federal law that restricts the release of medical information without a person’s consent. However, there ...
Protecting patient and employee health information has become more complex. Technology is, and likely always will be, a fundamental part of the healthcare system. While computers make it easier for ...
The “P” in HIPAA doesn’t stand for privacy. It’s one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations have been widely discussed in the press and within the medical provider community. Doctors and hospitals have grown used to ...
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. High on the regulatory watch list for the healthcare sector is ...
Credit: Getty Images Under a new rule, covered entities are expected to revise HIPAA policies, procedure manuals, and operational workflow to respond to requests for protected health information ...
At the Interop trade show last month, I chatted with a medical facility that used wireless LANs but had chosen not to deploy Vocera’s popular voice “badges” for conducting phone calls across the WLAN.