Social Media and the Workplace

Every company, office, and factory is filled with employees who use social media on a daily basis. With 700 billion minutes a month being spent on Facebook and 340 million tweets going out every day, employers must decide how they are going to handle the relationship...

How To Handle a HIPAA Breach

According to the website for Health and Human Services: A breach is, generally, an impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information such that the use or disclosure poses a significant...

Personal Computer Use at Work

Companies today conduct the majority of their business on computers. Employees should not be using company time and computers to surf the web, send personal emails, and use social networking. They should be doing what they are paid to do: work. Even when warned that...

Email Patients with Confidence

It is very important for doctors and patients to maintain open lines of communication. In today’s atmosphere, using the phone seems unnecessary for many situations. It has become our natural inclination to email first and telephone second. Email is fast,...