Navigating the Complexities of HIPAA Compliance for Your Practice
When you work in healthcare, hearing about HIPAA is inevitable. There is a ton of information online about HIPAA, but finding information related to your business can be challenging as a small healthcare practice. Here are some HIPAA FAQs for smaller practices… What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? The HIPAA Privacy Rule dictates the proper […]
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): An Essential Focus for Healthcare Providers
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for many individuals, including frontline healthcare workers. Although the number of new cases has decreased over the past couple weeks, the virus outbreak is still affecting numerous Americans, especially financially. A recent report published by the Kaiser Family Foundation noted that: More than one in six adults (17.4 percent) […]
Essential Steps for Improving Cybersecurity in Healthcare
The use of technology in healthcare offers a lot of advantages for providers. It streamlines workflows, automates administrative tasks, enables improved access of care for residents of rural communities and more. Unfortunately, there’s also a price to pay for the benefits of healthcare IT, and it is cybercrime. Attacks through data breaches, ransomware, phishing scams, […]
The Perks of Patient Satisfaction for Healthcare Providers
In the business world, it costs five times as much to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Satisfied customers tell an average of nine people about their positive experience, while dissatisfied ones are likely to tell 22 people about their negative one. Healthcare, for all intents and purposes, is a business. That […]