HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a United States federal statute that governs patients’ data access to outside users. The law created national standards to protect confidential patient health information from being released without the patient’s agreement or knowledge.

August 30, 2023 | 4 minutes read

Sensitive Information, Protected: Patient Privacy, HIPAA, And You

HIPAA compliance ensures patient privacy. Often making the consequences of non-compliance severe, so how do you avoid that?

August 25, 2022 | 4 minutes read

Meta Pixel and Novant Healthcare, New Privacy Concerns

On August 22, 2022, U.S. healthcare provider Novant Health revealed that they had experienced a data breach that impacted more than 1 million patients.

April 14, 2022 | 4 minutes read

Reducing Information Blocking Practices in the U.S.

Generally speaking, information blocking refers to a wide range of practices that healthcare providers use to prevent the sharing of EHI.

May 12, 2021 | 4 minutes read

Email Redaction, Hospitals, and HIPAA Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPPA for short is a law that governs and regulates how healthcare providers manage the PHI of their patients, ranging from insurance payments to specific medical records.

March 05, 2021 | 6 minutes read

What is HIPAA Compliance? Hospitals and Healthcare

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal healthcare law that was initially passed in 1996.

November 17, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Crisis Center Intervention and Redaction

The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) passed the HIPAA privacy regulations in 1996 to enforce the protection of private medical information of patients. HIPAA became a federal statute by the 104th United States Congress.

October 08, 2020 | 8 minutes read

Redaction in Medical Malpractice Litigation

Redaction is often used in medical malpractice litigation to hide the identities of patients who aren’t parties to the lawsuit. Materials needing editing generally do not comprise medical reports since these are unique to the patient whose case is in dispute. Instead, documents that require redaction are those that might infringe on other patients’ privacy.<

September 04, 2020 | 9 minutes read

HIPAA & The Privacy Law

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to bring standards to the handling of private health information (PHI) to protect individuals from the misuse of their personal data.

July 15, 2020 | 8 minutes read

School Reopenings & Student Privacy

Coronavirus is changing the way schools operate. If there are recordings of students participating, communicating, or giving demonstrations, then the information faces FERPA policies and heavy redaction from school administrators or other resources.

May 26, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Redacting (Blacking out) Data In Medical Records For Privacy

Patient privacy must be protected and one way to do that is through text redaction. Learn more about medical record redaction to comply with laws like HIPAA.

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