Category: HIPAA

Social media provides healthcare professionals many benefits. It’s an easy, efficient and effective way to provide information to mass amounts of viewers. You can promote your practice and the services you provide to encourage new business and future opportunities. But you must be careful of the information you share. Sharing the wrong or inappropriate information…

Healthcare facilities that possess patient medical records have a legal duty to secure and destroy these records. HIPAA regulates guidelines about how and when to destroy patient medical files. Documentation that needs to be destroyed includes patient medical charts and any medical reports that include confidential patient health information.   Shredding Your Paper Records HIPAA…

When it comes to HIPAA regulations, it can be overwhelming. Non-compliance can lead to hefty fines and/or jail time. At MedPro Disposal we took the time to list some of the most common HIPAA violations for you. Intruding on Healthcare Records Accessing any health records for reasons other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations is…

It is widely known that HIPAA covers a vast majority of the private sector. HIPAA’s coverage ranges from healthcare providers to insurance companies, to healthcare clearinghouses as well as third parties that these entities interact with. The list is simply vast and the fact that HIPAA is primarily concerned with protecting non-electronic and electronic Protected…

UPDATE: Looking for how to report a HIPAA compliance violation? Visit this HHS.gov complaint reporting page. It’s 3 am and you’ve had so much coffee, Juan Valdez just called to ask for time off. If you could just practice medicine, your life would be 9 million times easier. The thicket of HIPAA compliance is a…

Overwhelmed with the process of navigating HIPAA compliance? We understand the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be a bit complicated. At the end of the day, HIPAA compliance is about implementing controls and safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information (PHI) by developing policies and procedures in line with the…

MedPro Disposal Addresses A Key Challenge for Healthcare Organizations Seeking To Safeguard Patient Information MedPro Disposal, a leader in medical waste disposal services, is pleased to announce its new partnership with PCIHIPAA, a leading Payments Card Industry (PCI) and HIPAA compliance provider. The partnership is focused on protecting MedPro Disposal clients from the onslaught of HIPAA…

This HIPAA Security Series List contains handy links to all seven HHS documents. The links lead to the pages on the official HHS website. The HIPAA Security Series is a handy reference of guidelines for achieving compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule. The series provides seven helpful documents that cover everything from basic concepts to…

MedPro Disposal provides HIPAA compliance training. As such, we’re always interested in digging into HIPAA and other healthcare regulation to ensure a higher level of understanding. The post below answers the question, “What does HIPAA stand for.” It also delves into other common questions, provides a tight HIPAA summary, and looks at related concerns like…

HIPAA law goes by many names:     The HIPAA Security Rule The HIPAA Privacy Rule “HIPPAA” Law HIPAA Confidentiality Law PHI Data Protection Law Private Patient Information Law They’re all facets of the same thing (and one misspelling). By any name, HIPAA contains hundreds of opportunities for employers to fall prey to millions in…