by Gary Pritts | Dec 14, 2011 | HIPAA
EHR Authors and Value Added Resellers (VARs) will soon have their own HIPAA obligations. At present, EHR Authors and VARs are contractually obligated by the terms of any HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) they have signed. Soon, EHR Authors and VARs (and all... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Dec 7, 2011 | HIPAA
Facebook, and other Social Media including Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and others are a reality of mainstream society. Employers in general, including HIPAA covered entities, are grappling with this new reality. On the one hand, social media have been proven to be a... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Dec 6, 2011 | HIPAA
The Joint Commission (JCAHO) weighed in recently regarding the issue of physicians using text messages to transmit orders. They didn’t explicitly state that their opinion was related to the HIPAA regulations, but we infer that HIPAA was part of the thought... Read More
