Reducing Risks when Texting in Your Medical Practice

5 Tips to Help Lower Medical Texting Risk

Special Report: Medical Texting

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Texting enables physicians to quickly communicate important health information to patients. However, texting protected health information (PHI) can lead to significant healthcare privacy law (HIPAA and HITECH) concerns.

In this special report, NORCAL’s risk management experts offer an informative guide that combines both external research and NORCAL’s proprietary risk management data highlighting five helpful tips to stay compliant and reduce the risk of inadvertently exposing patients’ private information when texting.

Risk Areas

  • Learn 5 tips to help lower risk when using texting to communicate professionally.

Case Study

  • Learn how other medical professionals have put themselves and their practices at risk.

Best Practices

  • Guard yourself against common mistakes and feel more comfortable integrating texting in your practice.