Category: Dentist Regulation
PCI DSS Compliance: The Other Privacy Rules
In previous posts, we covered the ins and outs of HIPAA and its four general rules: Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement. In this post, we discuss the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”), an often overlooked privacy standard that, while overlapping somewhat with HIPAA, is a completely…
Navigating the Regulatory Environment for Doctors Part 6 – HIPAA Enforcement
In our last two posts we’ve evaluated HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and the Security Rule/Breach Notification Rule, which outline your duties under HIPAA. In our final post in this series, we’re going to take a close look at what happens if you violate, those rules, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
Navigating the Regulatory Environment for Doctors Part 5 – HIPAA Security and Breach Notification
In our last post we started our discussion of HIPAA, the federal law governing patient privacy, with a look at HIPAA’s Privacy Rule. HIPAA is intended to impose nationwide standards on doctors in protecting patient privacy and pre-empts, or supersedes, any conflicting state laws. Therefore, Arizona’s patient privacy laws largely…
Navigating the Regulatory Environment for Doctors Part 4 – HIPAA Privacy
In our recent posts we have looked at several regulatory systems that affect doctors: the disciplinary process, regulations related to the handling of prescription drugs, and OSHA regulations. In the next three posts, we will look at a regulatory framework that has had a major impact on medical and dental…
Navigating the Regulatory Environment for Doctors Part 3 – OSHA
In our previous posts in this series, we looked at the discipline process as well as regulations surrounding the handling and prescribing of medication. This post will focus on the workplace safety regulations applicable to doctors’ offices at both the state and federal level.