HIPAA

HIPAA Compliance Guidelines & Tips for Medical Transcriptionists

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Do you know almost all of the email messages that you send and receive travel over many networks and computers leaving copies of themselves all over the Internet? Unbelievable?  Perform a trace route yourself and then believe! From your computer it takes multiple hops before the message could reach the server at the destination. So probabilities are there … Read more

HIPAA Compliance in Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post HITECH

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It’s almost 6-1/2 years we, medical transcriptionists, have been with HIPAA since April 14, 2003. How effective was HIPAA compliance in medical transcription all these days? Where do the medical transcription industry stand in terms of HIPAA pre-enactment of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act? HIPAA Compliance in Medical Transcription. A Revisit Post … Read more