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What’s the Difference Between HIPAA Business Associates and Visitors?
Your Privacy Officer should be noting visitors to your office and ensuring that Visitor Privacy Policies are signed and retained. Business Associate Agreements are not the same thing as Visitor Privacy Policies, although many offices seem to use them interchangeably.  By reading this blog post, you...  Read More
Is an Employee Privacy Policy (EPP) Required by HIPAA?
Is an Employee Privacy Policy (EPP) required? Yes. An Employee Privacy Policy is a HIPAA-required document. Lee Slaton, Smart Training’s Vice President of Healthcare,  that signed Employee Privacy Policies “can be get-out-of-jail-free cards in worst-case scenarios.” An Employee Privacy Policy...  Read More
HIPAA Data Breaches: 2019 Case Studies
HIPAA is the . A HIPAA breach is when PHI is accessible to someone who shouldn’t have access to it. Some HIPAA breaches happen because an employee was curious. Other HIPAA breaches are simply an innocent mistake, such as when an employee is fooled by a phishing email. But other HIPAA breaches...  Read More
Dental Respiratory Protection Program Webinar
This blog post features a webinar with Smart Training’s Vice President of Healthcare, Lee Slaton. This webinar was hosted by , and it covers dental respiratory protection programs (RPPs). Lee Slaton wrote, Here’s what you’ll learn about in this webinar:                                            ...  Read More
1494 Anthony J. Faso of Infinite Wealth Consultants on Creating Passive Income & Doing What You Love : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Anthony is a family man, army veteran, author, real estate investor and self-proclaimed “Recovering” CPA. After the Great Recession, he saw the advice his clients were receiving from typical financial planners and himself only made Wall Street rich at the expense of his clients. That inspired...  Read More
Are Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) Required by HIPAA?
Lee Slaton, Vice President of Healthcare at Smart Training, , “Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) can be get-out-of-jail-free cards in worst-case HIPAA scenarios.” A BAA is a document between covered entities and business associates. The BAA ensures the business associates are compliant with...  Read More
N95 Respirators and Respiratory Protection Programs
First, who is required to have a mandatory respiratory protection program? Any entity that has employees who are either required to wear a respirator or who choose to wear a respirator voluntarily. Are N95 masks classified as masks or respirators? N95 “masks” are classified as respirators. To learn...  Read More
How to Create your Respiratory Written Program on Smart Training's LMS
Respiratory Protection Programs Is your dental practice utilizing N-95, KN-95, or their equivalent  during the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ve found that quite a few practice owners don’t yet realize that using N-95-type respirators requires them to maintain an OSHA Written Respiratory Protection Program....  Read More
COVID-19 Causes Increase in Phishing Scams
FBI Alert of COVID-19 Email Scams The healthcare providers to an increase in COVID-19 phishing scams. Network perimeter cybersecurity tools used by US-based healthcare providers started detecting COVID-19 phishing campaigns from both domestic and international IP addresses on March 18, 2020, and...  Read More
Telehealth and HIPAA Compliance During COVID-19
Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has increased the use of telehealth. Telehealth offers many benefits, including mitigating the spread of COVID-19. But it also complicates . Why care about HIPAA? HIPAA data breaches can cause hefty . The most HIPAA can fine your...  Read More
1474 Periodontist & Real Estate Investor Dr. Jeff Anzalone on Becoming a Debt-Free Doctor : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Dr. Jeff is a full-time practicing periodontist in the great state of Louisiana, author and founder of . His focus is on helping dentists and other high-income professionals create passive income from real estate so that they can STOP trading their time for money. VIDEO - DUwHF #1474 - Jeff...  Read More
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1468 Wes Read, CPA, CFP, of PracticeCFO on Running a Financially Independent Practice : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Wes Read is has been working exclusively with dentists for 15 years as a dental CPA and financial advisor. He also has the Certified Financial Planner designation. After graduating from BYU in 2005 with a Masters in Accounting, he worked for Ernst and Young, a big four accounting firm. Eventually...  Read More
1467 Dr. Parth Patel, DMD, FAGD, FICOI, on Buying a Dental Office During a Pandemic : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Dr. Parth Patel grew up in Atlanta and earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) from Midwestern University, College of Dental Medicine in Illinois after receiving his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Georgia. He then further continued his journey by pursuing Advanced...  Read More
1429 Seth Calish, Matt Havass & Cole Herzik of Dental Student Vibes : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Seth Calish attended Florida State University and was a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, is an Eagle Scout, and later earned a Master’s in Medical Science at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He is currently a 3rd Year Dental student in Florida and has held many...  Read More
Facebook Ads for Dentists: A Complete Guide
Let’s be honest… Dental school teaches dentists the business of dentistry, not marketing. But in order to grow a dental practice, a successful online marketing strategy is critical. This guide was created to help you get started. First Things First: Why Facebook Ads? Facebook ads for dentists are...  Read More
1411 Renting vs. Owning Your Practice with Karl Frye of Frye Practice Sales : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Karl Frye is the founder and Principal owner of Frye Practice Sales & Healthcare Real Estate.  Karl oversees all aspects: sales, mergers, and acquisition and commercial real estate needs of his clients. Karl created FPS after a 10+ year career in commercial healthcare banking.  Karl has...  Read More
1408 How to Get Into a Dental Office with No Money Down with Colin Carr : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Colin Carr is the founder and CEO of CARR, the nation’s leading provider of commercial real estate services for healthcare tenants and buyers. Every year, thousands of healthcare practices trust CARR to achieve the most favorable terms on their lease and purchase negotiations.   VIDEO - DUwHF #1408...  Read More
1400 The Legal World in COVID 19 with Hillary Harms Becchetti, J.D. : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Hillary's first job was in a dental office. Both of her parents were dentists and she grew up filing, sterilizing, mowing the lawn and answering phones at her parents' practice in the Twin Cities metro area. Almost every family vacation was wherever the ADA conference happened to be that year and...  Read More
Will PPE Bankrupt Dentistry?
Dentistry....it could be good again if you understand this......
"A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.  If a slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks...."  ~Francis Fukuyama (Economist) My Boy Harley...always by my side enjoying this world! This was written for my...  Read More
???? How to Begin, Where to Begin on the road to my Dream Office
Every great story begins with a dream. Once upon a time; it was the best of times, it was the worst of times... How does your story begin? You made a decision years ago that you wanted to help people.  Help people by improving the quality of their lives through their dental health. What...  Read More
1390 Carey Lyons, CEO of ids - integrated dental systems, on Uniting the Dental Industry : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Carey was born and raised in New York City where he resides today. In 2013 he founded and is the CEO of ids-integrated dental systems a manufacturer and distributor of dental implants and accessories in partnership with dental supply dealers and the provider of extensive education to train dentists...  Read More
1387 Scott Becker on COVID-19 and the Healthcare Market : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Scott Becker is the Publisher and Founder of Becker’s HealthCare and Becker’s Hospital Review.   He is a partner at McGuireWoods and a former board member of McGuireWoods.   Mr. Becker also served as chair of the national health care practice at McGuireWoods for more than 12 years.   He is a...  Read More
1386 Howard Speaks About the Future of Dentistry : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Howard recently gave an online lecture to dental students at Loma Linda University and shared his thoughts about the current state of the profession and the future of dentistry. VIDEO - DUwHF #1386 - Loma Linda AUDIO - DUwHF #1386 - Loma Linda Thinking About Starting Your Own Podcast? Having...  Read More
1384 "We'll Get Through This" - Henry Schein CEO Stanley Bergman : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran
Since 1989, Stanley M. Bergman has been Chairman of the Board and CEO of Henry Schein, Inc., a Fortune 500® company and the world's largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners. Mr. Bergman serves as a board member or advisor for numerous...  Read More
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