Safeguarding a Client’s Confidential Information
In a world of information leaks and data breaches, client confidentiality becomes more important every day. As a medical services provider, it is important to understand the rules and regulations surrounding confidential information and what you can and should do to...
Understanding What Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Means for Your Health Care
Visiting with your doctor is a vulnerable experience, and you wouldn’t be pleased if your doctor decided to share your medical secrets with the rest of the world. Thankfully, the federal government agrees with you. Keeping medical information private is critically...
What is HIPAA? Understanding the Basics and Everything You Need to Know
Spending any significant time within the medical community will make it clear that HIPAA isn’t a term that’s thrown around casually. In fact, HIPAA rules impact almost every aspect of the overall health care system in America today, and showing ignorance of its...
HIPAA for Dummies: What You Need to Know
HIPAA regulation can seem complicated, but it doesn’t need to be that way. You don’t need to resort to a HIPAA for Dummies book in order to understand it. In fact, HIPAA legislation is not as complicated as you think, and the policy has real implications for the...
