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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance

Insights on HIPAA and Medical Malpractice
HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Insights on HIPAA and Medical Malpractice
12/03/2020
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
When we think about the privacy and security of patients’ medical information, we generally think HIPAA and federal law. But HIPAA is not the only law requiring the appropriate safeguarding of patient information. Both federal regulations...
When we think about the privacy and security of patients’ medical information, we generally think HIPAA and federal law. But HIPAA is not the only law requiring the appropriate safeguarding of patient information. Both federal regulations...
When we think about the privacy...
12/03/2020
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HIPAA Privacy and Security in the Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic
HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
HIPAA Privacy and Security in the Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic
07/06/2020
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
When communicating with patients and providing telehealth services, some technologies used may not be fully compliant with HIPAA rules. On March 17, 2020 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
When communicating with patients and providing telehealth services, some technologies used may not be fully compliant with HIPAA rules. On March 17, 2020 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
When communicating with patients...
07/06/2020
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HIPAA Privacy and Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic
HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
HIPAA Privacy and Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic
06/04/2020
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
The HIPAA Security Rule ensures the security of patients’ protected health information (PHI) and requires reasonable safeguards to be implemented to protect PHI against impermissible uses and disclosures.1 The HIPAA Privacy Rule restricts the...
The HIPAA Security Rule ensures the security of patients’ protected health information (PHI) and requires reasonable safeguards to be implemented to protect PHI against impermissible uses and disclosures.1 The HIPAA Privacy Rule restricts the...
The HIPAA Security Rule ensures...
06/04/2020
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance: 'We Don’t Need A Chief Privacy Officer'
11/07/2018
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Privacy compliance is often a neglected task. Wound care program directors should advocate for a committed CPO for their health system or clinic, if one is not in place.
Privacy compliance is often a neglected task. Wound care program directors should advocate for a committed CPO for their health system or clinic, if one is not in place.
Privacy compliance is often a...
11/07/2018
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Your Files Have Been Encrypted: The Growing Threat of Ransomware
04/05/2018
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Recently, the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy aired an episode where the hospital’s electronic health record was overtaken by ransomware. Patient health was jeopardized when providers could not access patients’ health information, and the...
Recently, the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy aired an episode where the hospital’s electronic health record was overtaken by ransomware. Patient health was jeopardized when providers could not access patients’ health information, and the...
Recently, the popular TV show...
04/05/2018
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Rise of the Cyber Criminal in 2018: HIPAA Security Does Not Stop With Compliance
01/04/2018
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
Reports of cyber attacks continue to be prevalent. However, healthcare providers may be unaware of a few important facts:  Healthcare, as an industry, sees more data breaches than any other.1 Criminal attacks are the leading cause of...
Reports of cyber attacks continue to be prevalent. However, healthcare providers may be unaware of a few important facts:  Healthcare, as an industry, sees more data breaches than any other.1 Criminal attacks are the leading cause of...
Reports of cyber attacks...
01/04/2018
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Conducting Your HIPAA-Required Security Risk Assessment
11/07/2017
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
A company based in the state of Pennsylvania that develops wireless technology that’s used to assist physicians in the care of their cardiology patients was recently fined in excess of $2 million for a HIPAA breach that occurred when the...
A company based in the state of Pennsylvania that develops wireless technology that’s used to assist physicians in the care of their cardiology patients was recently fined in excess of $2 million for a HIPAA breach that occurred when the...
A company based in the state of...
11/07/2017
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
The Dirty Little Secret About Medical Device Security
09/06/2017
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
What are the rules regarding IMD safety? That all depends on whom you ask. 
What are the rules regarding IMD safety? That all depends on whom you ask. 
What are the rules regarding IMD...
09/06/2017
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Should Healthcare Providers Google Their Patients?
07/03/2017
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
The digital age in which we all live in and work in brings us unique opportunities from both a personal and professional standpoint. With most of us having easy access to the Internet while at home and on the go, which offers us free...
The digital age in which we all live in and work in brings us unique opportunities from both a personal and professional standpoint. With most of us having easy access to the Internet while at home and on the go, which offers us free...
The digital age in which we all...
07/03/2017
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Are You at Risk of Improperly Managing Business Associates?
03/31/2017
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
In the world of HIPAA, you are your brother’s (or sister’s) keeper. Under the HIPAA HITECH Act enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment of 2009, that means, legally speaking, that any covered entity (CE) — namely the...
In the world of HIPAA, you are your brother’s (or sister’s) keeper. Under the HIPAA HITECH Act enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment of 2009, that means, legally speaking, that any covered entity (CE) — namely the...
In the world of HIPAA, you are...
03/31/2017
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Letter From the Editor

From the Editor
The Future of Wound Care in the Quality Payment Program
03/13/2024
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to...
03/13/2024
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From the Editor
The Non-Pressure Ulcer Episode-Based Cost Measure "Field Test" Began Feb. 1
02/05/2024
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining...
02/05/2024
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Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new...
01/25/2024
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Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP, WMS
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity...
09/01/2023
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Guest Editorial
Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients
06/01/2023
Monique L. Abner, MD, CWSP
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a...
06/01/2023
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From the Editor
Confessions of a Doctor With Lipedema
03/14/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how...
03/14/2023
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From the Editor
Why Won’t the DME Provide Dressings for My Patient?
02/23/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My...
02/23/2023
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Guest Editorial
How Wound Care Providers Can Treat Patients Like People, Not Like Cases
02/01/2023
Morgan McCoy
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care...
02/01/2023
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Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Shannon Kody, MD
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the...
01/11/2023
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From the Editor
The Patient’s Perspective: Things I Wish Wound Care Doctors Would Consider When They See a Patient
12/20/2022
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
A patient sent me this message so I decided to post it. It speaks for itself.
A patient sent me this message so I decided to post it. It speaks for itself.
A patient sent me this message...
12/20/2022
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Coping With COVID-19

Business Briefs
Telehealth Use Continues and Receives Further Medicare Payment 
01/25/2023
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been...
01/25/2023
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Waivers Q&A
09/07/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more...
09/07/2022
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extension Also Applies to Telehealth
08/15/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health...
08/15/2022
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Coding Changes, and Coverage Changes Continue
02/09/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review...
02/09/2022
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