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Patient Privacy:

Don't Let a Text Compromise Your Eye Practice's Security

Published on Tue Nov 22, 2016

HIPAA-compliant messaging helps practices maintain their patients’ privacy. Your physicians, mid-level providers, and support staff probably find texting to be a convenient and quick tool to help staffers stay in touch and communicate about patient issues—but if you aren’t careful, your texting practices could get you into trouble. The handy nature of these implementations makes people complacent, and the line [...]
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