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HIPAA Compliance for Dental Offices: Best Practices to Sink Your Teeth Into

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Dental offices and practices need to stay compliant with the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA). If these practices aren't compliant with HIPAA, they can face massive penalties. In this blog post, we'll give you an overview of HIPAA compliance for dental offices.

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10 Factors for Choosing The Right Dentist Website Design Company

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These days, those two words coexist and are an essential part of running a modern-day dental practice. To put it simply, if you put effort in SEO for your dental practice you could reap the benefits of at least a 1,000% increase in your practice’s website traffic. I know what you’re thinking, “You have my attention…but prove it.”

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[ANSWERED] Do HIPAA Laws Apply to Employers?

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If you’re reading this blog, chances are that the company you work for works with HIPAA in some type of way. HIPAA is short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. So on to the question that this blog is all about. So on to the question that this blog is all about.

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HIPAA Training for Dental Offices: What You Need to Know

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It was just a few years ago when news broke that a dental practice had to pay a $10,000 fine to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for a HIPAA violation. Although on the more extreme end, that’s a clear violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. For example, I Googled the phrase “HIPAA” and the first result was from the CDC.

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15 Essential Questions to Include in Your HIPAA Quiz for Employees

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Although it has almost been around for 30 years, healthcare organizations have always had a hard time satisfying all of HIPAA’s requirements. Of course, there are multiple reasons why the healthcare industry is in a constant battle with staying HIPAA compliant. Fourth, your organization’s are your biggest HIPAA risk.

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Tick-Tock – Time for Healthcare Employers to Review Their Internet and Social Media Use Policies!

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For example, in our recent blog , we described a recent HIPAA-related settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) stemming from a provider’s disclosure of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) in responding to online patient reviews. [1] Expectations.

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8 Real HIPAA Violation Examples and Their Consequences

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What is a HIPAA violation? What are some HIPAA violations examples? HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. A HIPAA violation occurs when the acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of PHI happens in a way that creates a significant personal risk to the patient. How does it happen?