by Hernan Serrano | Feb 12, 2020 | HIPAA Management, Privacy
Patients have the right to file a complaint when they believe your organization has mishandled their information or otherwise violated the HIPAA rules. Patients may mail, fax, or email a complaint to your organization or file one through the OCR’s Complaint Portal.... by Hernan Serrano | Jan 15, 2020 | HIPAA Management
You’ve heard of the SWOT analysis – a technique used to help businesses identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The SWOT analysis helps an organization identify its priorities and set a course of action. Similarly, a “gap” analysis can help a... by Anna Belmonte | Jan 8, 2020 | HIPAA Management, HIPAA Training
Checklists are popular in healthcare, particularly for doctors and nurses to use during certain procedures to improve patient safety. Though your compliance department won’t use checklists for this purpose, there are ways you can use them to streamline your HIPAA... by Anna Belmonte | Dec 11, 2019 | HIPAA Management
Before you rush headlong into 2020, you might want to take a pause. In the next couple of weeks, take time to evaluate how well your HIPAA compliance program has run this year and what you can do to make it stronger in the new year. To help you evaluate and plan... by Hernan Serrano | Nov 27, 2019 | HIPAA Management, Security
If you have a startup that provides a product or service to medical practices, you know there are regulations governing how you collect and use your clients’ data. If you handle the health information of your clients’ patients, you are your clients’ business... by Anna Belmonte | Nov 20, 2019 | HIPAA Management
At a busy healthcare organization, your HIPAA compliance documentation can quickly become a tangled mess of papers and binders. You’re probably already frustrated by the sheer volume of files you’ve accumulated. But do you need all of it? When can you get rid of some...
