Telehealth Security: Using a VPN
There has been much debate on whether or not telehealth offers a secure means of communicating with patients, especially with many providers seeing patients virtually from [...]
SAMHSA Proposes Changes to Substance Abuse Privacy Regulations
42 CFR Part 2 is a federal regulation that requires substance abuse disorder treatment providers observe privacy and confidentiality restrictions with respect to patient records. These regulations, together with [...]
How Data Obtained from Healthcare Breaches is Used
The frequency in which healthcare breaches are occurring is cause for concern; it seems like every day there is news about another healthcare breach. Healthcare entities hold a wealth [...]
MSP Healthcare Vertical and HIPAA Compliance
The healthcare vertical has become more lucrative as of late, as the fastest growing sector of the U.S. economy and the most vulnerable to cyberattacks. Healthcare organizations need managed [...]
HIPAA Workforce Definition
The HIPAA workforce definition is critical to understanding which entities a covered entity must enter into business associate agreements with. The HIPAA workforce definition is discussed below. [...]
HIPAA Wiki: A Brief Summary of HIPAA Rights
The Hawaiian language has a memorable equivalent of the English word for “fast”: “wikiwiki.” The term “wikiwiki” can be spoken quickly. Similarly, when a person looks up a “wiki” [...]
HIPAA Compliant Call Recording
Providers may want to record conversations that they have with patients to refer back to for treatment purposes. However, there are certain restrictions placed on recording protected health information [...]
What is Health Information Blocking?
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on electronic protected health information (ePHI) sharing. The rule is scheduled to become [...]
Inc. 2020 Best Workplaces
Compliancy Group is proud to announce that we have been listed on Inc. Magazine’s 2020 Best Workplaces list. “One thing we pride ourselves most on is our ability to [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Facility Directories
The HIPAA Privacy Rule generally permits hospitals and other healthcare facilities to maintain facility directories that provide certain basic information about patients within the facilities. The [...]
