Category: HIPAA

Updated on June 5, 2020. Given the growing interest in video conferencing services for communicating with patients online, healthcare organizations often come to Bridge Patient Portal, a patient engagement vendor, with questions about the use of Skype™ for telemedicine, and is Skype™ HIPAA Compliant? Here we will focus on two…Read more

Updated on January 26, 2022 Although texting appointment reminders are allowed under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) due to the fact that “appointment reminders”[¹] are considered part of the treatment of an individual and, therefore, can be made without authorization, new HIPAA privacy rules have recently added more…Read more

More and more health organizations are implementing publicly-exposed web technologies containing Protected Health Information (PHI) which are subject to the laws of HIPAA. Common examples of such systems include Electronic Health Record (EHR), web portal, patient portal software, and mhealth solution. When those systems become integrated, PHI must travel from one…Read more

Updated on January 18, 2021. Why secure patient-provider communication is required Patients require open communication with their healthcare providers before and after their appointments, and with the rise of telehealth, SMS/email communication is even more prevalent. It has been found that patients are moving away from live telephone calls and…Read more

We’ve come to the final installment of our three-part series decoding the Security Rule section of HIPAA in connection with healthcare application development. This rule’s detailed guidance on the degree to which the transmission and storage of electronic protected health information (ePHI) must be kept safe makes it especially relevant…Read more

Updated on November 24th, 2021. This is the second part of our three-part series discussing the Security Rule section of HIPAA compliant healthcare application development. Here we’ll go over HIPAA auditing, what it means, why it must be done, the implications of not doing so, and how you should conduct…Read more

Updated on July 23, 2020. Of the three main components of HIPAA (the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification Rule) the Security Rule is particularly relevant to healthcare mobile app development. The majority of these applications, from patient portals to mhealth apps, store or transmit electronic protected health information…Read more

  With goods and services increasingly moving online – and with patients prioritizing other factors besides just quality care – it has become a necessity for healthcare organizations to start looking for new ways to improve the overall patient experience. Video consultations are one such solution, and they are gaining…Read more

As a provider of patient portal, SaaS software and hosting solutions to the medical industry, we get asked this question a lot. Unfortunately, there’s very little information available on the internet that addresses this specific issue – and what does exist is generally false or a part of a sales…Read more

This article applies to Covered Entities (any health care provider, health plan, or health care clearinghouse) and Business Associates (any person or entity that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of a covered entity). With new HIPAA regulations and enforcement procedures having taken effect last year,…Read more