LGBTQIA+ workers still go to work every day for fear that they might lose their jobs because of who they love and who they are. There is no federal law protecting the LGBTQIA community from workplace discrimination and harassment. There is confusion among org ...
The healthcare environment creates a major challenge in the prevention and intervention of violence. The rate of injuries and illness from violence in the healthcare industry is more than three times greater than violence in all private industry. This training ...
The Internet is jam-packed with unwitting but highly visible HIPAA violations committed by Covered Entities on their social media pages like Facebook, their organization’s web site, patient testimonials they post and their responses to patient reviews – whethe ...
Regular (unencrypted) Email and Text Messaging containing Protected Health Information (PHI) are effective engagement and communication tools that patients like and have the right to use. However, unencrypted Emails and Text Messages containing PHI raise signi ...
More and more people are complaining of feeling depressed, hopeless, and just plain out of sorts. Therapists indicate that more and more people are seeking therapy, especially since the 2016 election. Millennials, the largest workgroup in our workplaces, have ...
So much a part of coding from CPT is understanding the parenthetical that the AMA(American Medical Association) has added in the manual as guidelines in choosing the appropriate CPT code for a procedure or service. There are tricks of the trade and coding con ...
Nurse-to-nurse bullying threatens the safety and well-being of patients and nurses. The misconduct is a major problem to all nurses and causing 60% of new nurses to leave their first nursing position and 1 in 3 nurses to quit the profession. Sometimes the bull ...
The definition of a HIPAA Business Associate casts a wide net of healthcare business activities, including any business that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits any Protected Health Information on behalf of a HIPAA Covered Entity or Business Associate, ...
Over many years, the heads of the US DHHS have indicated that patient access of information is a key priority in order to improve the health of the nation. Patient rights under HIPAA have been expanded to include several rights of access, and detailed guidance ...
While the worldwide pandemic has prompted some relaxation of HIPAA requirements in specific circumstances to ease the provision of medical services while preserving social distancing requirements, enforcement of HIPAA has continued. Recent enforcement actions ...