Ensuring HIPPA Compliance in patient confidentiality

Ensuring HIPAA Compliance in the Workplace: An HR Perspective

Understanding HIPAA Compliance Defining HIPAA Compliance The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or “HIPAA”, sets standards to protect sensitive and individually identifiable Protected Health Information (PHI) from disclosure. Under HIPAA, any company or individual that comes into contact with PHI must implement appropriate protective policies and procedures. And implementing and following those procedures is…

COVID and PHI

COVID and Health Information Privacy

As COVID-19 case numbers in the US continue to coast at an all time high, we need to keep our safety guards up now more than ever. Though, as the winter season pushes us indoors and reports of a vaccine grow more promising each day, we may continue to see our infection numbers climb. With…