HIPAA has evolved to become much more than what it was at its beginnings in 1996. Over the years, new pieces of legislation have been added and the standards themselves now encompass electronic health records and newer issues like PHI on social media. In the vast healthcare environment, it is important for providers to understand...Read More
HIPAA violations can be detrimental to your organization’s reputation, as well as costly. Learn which are the most common, and how to put safeguards in place to avoid them. The Top 10 Most Common HIPAA Violations: Source: HIPAA Journal, February 2023. Snooping on healthcare records from individuals who are not caring for the patient directly...Read More
Healthcare providers should be keeping their eyes on a new piece of bipartisan legislation seeking to offer workers stand-alone telehealth benefits – much in the same way that vision and dental plans are offered. We all remember how quickly telehealth became mainstream as the pandemic ramped up in 2020 – spurred on by both need...Read More
A lot of us complained about the bi-yearly time change, but will the alternative truly be better for us? While daylight savings time does give us more daylight hours, it also can disrupt our sleep schedule and lead to various health issues. Altering the body’s circadian rhythms by even an hour can change the delicate...Read More
Why is Vendor Compliance Important? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets high standards for the protection of patient health information (PHI). As a covered entity under HIPAA, practices must be very careful about which vendors they partner with that may also have access to that PHI. Vendors are also called business associates...Read More
Healthcare organizations should be actively working on their interoperability, and federal officials are pushing FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) as the best way to ensure that EHR systems can share data. The military has now deployed a single EHR system, paving the way for interoperability in the Department of Defense, using the FHIR data standard....Read More
With AI getting more intelligent each year, as evidenced by the recent news about ChatGPT passing the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, many wonder what role AI and healthcare will have in the future. At this point, and with the technology available, it is safe to say that they can hold a valuable role in increasing...Read More
Fresh from the exciting 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, FormDr is excited about all of the new and innovative healthcare technology shown at the largest tech convention in the world. One of the primary topics of the convention was cybersecurity, and we were happy to see companies putting user data security as...Read More
Whether you realize it or not, online tracking technology is part of our daily lives. Every time your phone remembers a password for you, or your browser picks up right where you left off – a bit of your information was saved. The question is – what type of information, and how much? In response...Read More
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was intentionally designed with broad definitions and scope to encompass future changes. However, throughout its history, there have been times when updates have been necessary. To set the stage for a new year in healthcare, let’s review legal and regulatory changes from the past couple of years,...Read More
