A Case of Nurse’s breach of Patient Confidentiality

Most of the healthcare professionals are conscious about HIPAA, and of course conscientious about patients’ rights to complete confidentiality. And the healthcare industry has adopted the best practice of annual HIPAA training processes to cover the new workforce members and periodic refreshers for all employees. So far so good. However, there are times when the […]

Mobile Secure Communication Increases Patient Engagement

Patient engagement is an important theme discussed by many clinicians and hospital leaders. The healthcare industry is a competitive marketplace where patients have several choices about what doctors to see and what clinics to visit. The term “patient engagement” itself is somewhat confusing and often misused, as it is used to describe everything from patient […]

When you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em

Recently, I attended a Rewards & Recognition gala in Boston, where many of our physician friends were present.   During social hour and discussion, we talked about the topic that invariably creeps up in such groups.  It was about the growing physician work overload.  Everyone unanimously thought that the cause for this burden is both […]

Getting Up, Close & Personal with E2EE

As a medical practitioner, you are constantly exposed to abbreviations. So let’s examine the one from the world of technology, E2EE. It stands for ‘End-to-end Encryption‘. End-to-end encryption is quickly becoming the de facto standard in communication between two or more parties. As an example, if you send a message via email or SMS, you […]

Physician Burnout: Causes, Effects and Remedies

Physician burnout is an epidemic prevailing today in the medical profession. A study shows that on anaverage 1 in 3 US doctors at any given time suffer from physician burnout. Recent survey in the US shows that physician burnout rates are higher than 50%. These revelations demonstrate that doctors are facing extreme work pressures which […]

What does End-to-End Encryption mean (and why should you care?)

OK… now we have all heard about end-to-end encryption. What does that really mean? And why should you as a clinician be concerned about it. What are these ‘ends’ in end-to-end? When they refer to end-to-end, the two ends refer to the sender and the receiver. Let’s say you are want to convey some important […]

The Importance of HIPAA-Secure Communication

We all know that the healthcare industry is plagued with allegations of patient data breaches from online hackers and in-house data imposters. Hackers constantly attempt to steal the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients and sell it on the black market for fraudulent purposes. Patients’ PHI data is vulnerable because it is shared with various […]

HIPAA Violations start getting recognized and enforced

The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in 1996  What HIPAA is universally known for is protecting the privacy of your medical information. On April 14, 2003, the law was revised with the following provisions: