Microsoft has extended malware protection for Windows XP systems through July 14, 2015. But this does not mean that using Windows XP after April 8, 2014, is a smart thing to do. According to Microsoft, “To help …
Universal Precautions (ALWAYS putting on protective gloves, masks, and protective clothing) for healthcare providers became necessary when it was realized that contact with a patient’s bodily fluids could result in the caregiver’s death. In today’s world …
5 Things Even the Smallest Doctor’s Office Should Learn A doctor’s oath to “Do No Harm” also means they need to protect patient data. Protecting confidential information is providing good health care. Identity theft can last …
What risks can you effectively manage? I am glad that some readers are engaged enough to vocally disagree with my recent article about Windows XP not being an acceptable risk after it loses its security patches and updates …
HIPAA Enforcement Blind Spots HIPAA enforcement has increased in recent years, but the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights(OCR) still only fines a few organizations out of the thousands of investigations it …
How Good Is Your Terminated User Checklist? Having a former employee access electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) is a data breach. In today’s computing environment terminating employee access can mean a lot more than just denying logins …
HIPAA Security Risk Assessment tool has serious flaws You would think that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) would have learned something from the healthcare.gov website fiasco. ONC should …
Don’t Worry About the 2014 HIPAA Audits Focus on Preventing Data Breaches While the buzz is picking up about the HIPAA Audits that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights …
Will Shadow IT Kill Your Business? Are your employees unsecurely sharing critical files? Are they making their own IT decisions? Do you even know what is really going on? What can you do to stop …
Unprecedented Penalties Send Strong Messages by Mike Semel On April 22, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced two stunning penalties for lost laptops that totaled …