When a study released this fall found that more than 50% of staff fail Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) assessments, two-thirds witness internal breaches, and more than 80% ...

Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report. Ongoing ...

Medical information – which includes fitness, genetic issues, and the diseases someone suffers from – is intensely personal stuff. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ...

The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

Better hospital handoffs decrease medical errors Physician organizations need to do a better job training staff in safeguarding protected health information and complying with HIPAA in other ways.

Physicians can earn free CME credits by completing the Office for Civil Rights new HIPAA training module. This article was originally published on July 21 on Revenue Cycle Advisor. A new video ...

Annual or on-hire training is not the place to stop; to be effective, training needs to be ongoing. A version of this article was first published March 17, 2021, by HCPro's Revenue Cycle Advisor, a ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Director of HIPAA enforcement agency cautions that many covered entities are not meeting the basic HIPAA requirements and sees “low-hanging fruit” for enforcement activity. The ...

Despite the looming reality that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights will be auditing healthcare providers for HIPAA compliance starting this fall, privacy issues ...

According to HHS, the fraudulent use and sale of protected health information is on the rise. The vast majority of HIPAA violations in 2013 were attributed, in part, to workplace theft and mishandling ...

According to our survey findings, just 69% of organizations require vendors to provide employee HIPAA training and show compliance verification. Adoption of other safeguards is even lower: Data ...