Email is a routine and essential part of communication in healthcare—even when communicating PHI. But setting and enforcing HIPAA-compliant email policies continues to be tricky for many organizations.
Q: Our state child support enforcement agency requested the medical records of one of our pediatric patients. Are we allowed to respond to this request without a subpoena?
CMS announced certain public health emergency policies have been enacted in California to assist those affected by the recent wildfires across the state.
Having just witnessed nature wreak havoc with back-to-back hurricanes, I feel it’s important to take a few minutes to remind everyone of the importance of Plan B—the backup plan. Let’s look at some real examples of how HIM professionals can be proactive to prevent chaos when unexpected events occur.
Access to protected health information (PHI) is one of the most important rights individuals and their personal representatives have under the privacy regulations, but this right is not absolute.
