Tammy Worth

Healthcare providers should take steps now to ensure that the telehealth modalities they use are HIPAA compliant.

Bias extends beyond skin color to the assumptions physicians might make about patients.

When talking about work issues, Dr Bernstein recommends trying not to focus too much on how awful things are because it can be disheartening.

Practices need to know all of the components of their health information systems to determine potential vulnerabilities.

By connecting on a personal level, medical practices may have better results in getting patients to settle their accounts.

Hackers have penetrated healthcare providers’ computer systems to encrypt information and demand money for its release.

The Department of Health and Human Services may impose a corrective action plan (CAP) in response to a particularly egregious HIPAA breach.

HHS fined providers for not having a business associate agreement in place or using an outdated one.

Providers are still not doing some of the most basic tasks required by the law.

What you need to know now to benchmark your medical practice.

Medical practices can take a number of steps to make it more difficult to hack into their computer files.

Now providers can be sued for HIPAA violations related to breaches of protected health information.

A study suggests that female physicians do not use as many codes as their male counterparts, resulting in a reimbursement gap.