The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security ...

Maintaining patient health information security and privacy is a leading concern for hospital systems and provider groups, especially since the updated HIPAA Omnibus rule, which went into effect last ...

Following some confusion, a Survey & Certification Letter sent last week has reaffirmed CMS’s stance on texting patient information, specifying that messages sent among clinicians are permissible so ...