Category: Phoenix Healthcare Law
Protecting Your Reputation Online
Every doctor has to deal with unhappy patients from time to time. The proliferation of social media websites such as Facebook, Yelp and Twitter, as well as doctor-specific rating sites like Healthgrades.com, Vitals.com and RateMDs.com have allowed unhappy patients the means to seriously damage your on-line reputation, regardless of the…
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.