By Adam Solander, Ali Lakhani and Wenxi Li
The increasing prevalence of mobile technology in the healthcare sector continues to create compliance concerns for physician practices and other health care entities. While the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services, has traditionally focused on technology breaches within larger health systems, smaller physician practices and health care entities must also ensure that their policies and practices related to mobile technology do not foster non-compliance and create institutional risk.
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