Improving Doctor-Patient Communication While Abiding by HIPAA
Since it was signed into law in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, has become a cornerstone of American healthcare regulation. While the Act affords many important and valuable protections to patients, the many associated rules can pose compliance challenges to healthcare organizations. With improving levels of Hospital Patient Satisfaction being such a priority for many organizations today, for example, making progress while abiding by HIPAA can seem overly difficult. In fact, there are actually some entirely HIPAA-appropriate options for hospitals and other healthcare organizations to explore. Enabling Improved Communication While Keeping Health Records Safe and Secure One of the most significant HIPAA provisions covers the ways by which hospitals and healthcare professionals must protect the medical records and privacy of patients. Exposing a single patient's medical history publicly could lead to many related problems down the road, fr