Patient Privacy:
CMS Lays out New Texting Guidelines — Are You at Risk?
Published on Mon Feb 05, 2018
CMS explicitly prohibits texting physician orders. Texting is such a ubiquitous form of communication that many physicians use it in the ED every day – but CMS wantsto ensure that you are using the medium properly, and the agency's latest memorandum outlines just what you can - and can't - do via text when clinical information isinvolved. Background: For years, [...]
