Month: August 2014

Many physicians are being asked by patients to communicate via email and that raises various privacy, HIPAA, and physician liability questions.  Do email communications violate privacy regulations or whether, if you can use e-mail, must the e-mail be encrypted?...

In a move that creates some confusing liability issues for physicians, to say nothing of quality of care issues for patients, the State of Missouri has now allowed for a license called an "assistant physician" to be issued to someone who has been graduated from any...