To accommodate patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, practices may have expanded personnel access to protected health information and relied on devices that might be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
An intense 2020 may be behind us, but, this year seems likely to place the COVID-19 pandemic front and center again.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Neurology, and American College of Rheumatology provided new clinical practice guidelines for Lyme disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
When talking about work issues, Dr Bernstein recommends trying not to focus too much on how awful things are because it can be disheartening.
By connecting on a personal level, medical practices may have better results in getting patients to settle their accounts.
Providers do not recognize their own inappropriate prescribing, want incentives for stewardship.
Hackers have penetrated healthcare providers’ computer systems to encrypt information and demand money for its release.
The DEA has issued a warning concerning an extortion scam involving calls from someone purporting to be a DEA agent attempting to extort money.
Beginning January 1, 2021, a federal law called the Every Prescription Conveyed Securely Act takes effect requiring that prescriptions for controlled substances covered under Medicare be prescribed electronically.
Putting information in the cloud can be a good move for a physician’s practice, but only if done well.
