A client recently asked me to write an email informed consent form, which I have always recommended when using email to communicate protected health information (“PHI”) with patients or clients. But rather than merely taking the informed consent form from my HIPAA Documents Resource Center CD, 5th edition, and putting in the client’s name where it reads [name of entity], I did some additional research and made some changes to the email informed consent form to reflect the current status of email. Then, I reverse engineered it and took the client’s name out and replaced it with “[name of entity]” so that my Premium Members would have the latest version. It is now available for you in an editable version on the Premium Member section of veteranspress.com.
Also, for your reading pleasure, the next installment (chapters 13 and 14) of my novel HIPAA Hysteria is now available in the Premium Member section of veteranspress.com. If you can’t wait to read the rest of it, you can order a trade paperback version or an ebook version for your Kindle or Nook.
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Because law and technology are ever changing, we are always on the lookout for ways to improve and update our HIPAA compliance tools for you. Please let us know if you have suggestions for how we can make HIPAA compliance easier and more effective for you and your organization.
