The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules require covered entities (including healthcare providers and health plans) and their business associates to protect patient ...

Physicians are every bit as mobile physically as smartphone-driven communications have become virtually. When your “office” on a given day might be a dozen patient rooms at a hospital or two clinics ...

The need for secure texting has never been more relevant as physicians and clinicians increasingly turn to their mobile devices to communicate with one another. Although quick and efficient, texting ...

Following some confusion, a Survey & Certification Letter sent last week has reaffirmed CMS’s stance on texting patient information, specifying that messages sent among clinicians are permissible so ...