Categories: HIPAA

Complying with HIPAA and Delivering PHI via Email Not only “should” you deliver patients their PHI via email, but you are actually required to assuming it’s reasonable and appropriate to… Read More

We are often asked at ScanSTAT about faxing medical records.  With the changes to HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules from the HITECH Act and the many permutations and combinations of… Read More

When a practice or doctor’s office considers outsourcing medical records tasks (like release of information or inbound document management to a third party, they often have concerns over the security and… Read More

A common question we hear all the time is, “Do you handle our audits?” While it might seem like a simple yes or no question, there’s more to it. The… Read More

Bottom Line In most electronic health records systems, patients have one chart that all doctors share. Because all doctors in that facility use that chart to make treatment decisions, all… Read More

Bottom Line Under HIPAA Privacy Law, there is a distinction between mental health records, which are part of a patient’s overall medical record, and psychotherapy notes, which are provided special… Read More