Federal Discretion for HIPAA and Telehealth Expiring May 11 - Implications for Microsoft Teams
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued four distinct Notifications of Enforcement Discretion between April, 2020 and February 2021, and all Notifications collectively were associated with the COVID-19 public health emergency. These discretions were issued to essentially allow healthcare providers the ability to adapt their care models to unprecedented circumstances during the pandemic. In this quick blog I will discussone of the expiring discretions associated with telehealthand the use of “non-public facing remote communication technologies”, which includes Microsoft Teams. When healthcare providers use virtual healthcare or telemedicine to deliver services, they must ensure that they comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. OCR is tasked with enforcing this application of HIPAA and HITECH to these services that use remote communication technologies, thus, why they issued theinitial notificationdetailing their provision to not impose penalties. When they issued the notice on March 17, 2020 – the accompanyingFAQdid not specify when the notification would expire. That TBD expiration date is now May 11, 2023.In response to COVID-19: How Microsoft can help with Situational Response and Crisis Communication
At Microsoft, our top concern is the wellbeing of our employees and supporting our customers in dealing with business impact during this challenging time. For many individuals and organizations, Microsoft Teams video-conferencing, chat and collaboration are playing an important role in helping people continue to work and collaborate. Please read aboutOur commitment to customers during COVID-19ByJared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365Business Continuity - Making the Most of Your Existing Microsoft Cloud Productivity Investments
As organizations are evaluating their plans to enable their employees to work from home, the importance of being able to stay connected is obvious. Most businesses enable mobile working and support a percentage of their users being remote.However there maybe circumstances where most end users will need to work remotely to support business continuity but the current infrastructure would not cope. This article explains how to best leverage your existing investments in Office 365 or Microsoft 365 to enable remote working for these eventualities and keep your business running.Shelly's Take on… New MS Teams Firstline Workers Features but for Clinicians
The recent announcements by Emma Williams, Corp Vise President of Modern Workplace Verticals, about how 8 new MS Teams features can empower Firstline Workers is exciting for many organization and industries across the country, but I wanted to call out a few features that are revolutionary for Health Providers. To see the full original post, please read here.Deliver Rich Microsoft Teams Meetings with Traditional Whiteboard and Content Cameras
Want to take that conference room outfitted with an old-fashioned whiteboard, whiteboard markers/erasure, and turn it in to a slick Microsoft Teams Meetings space that brings the whiteboard in to the modern collaboration world? Well thankfully you now can and with a minimal investment that will delight your internal users.Easy Creation of Rich Microsoft Teams Templates for Enterprise Use Webcast
Join us for November 18 th at 12 noon eastern for the “Easy Creation of Rich Microsoft Teams Templates for Enterprise Use Webcast.” This session will feature representatives from Microsoft partner BindTuning presenting their solution.
