Being HIPAA Compliant Is Not a Snapshot in Time Meaningful Use Requires You to Protect Patient Data Protecting patient information is like protecting patient safety; it is something you have to do every time, by developing habits you don’t have ...
HIPAA Compliant Data – Who Can Get to What, and Why Before you give your employees HIPAA compliant access to patient data you must do some planning. While it would be easy to give everyone access to everything, HIPAA’s requirement ...
Failed Firewall the Latest HIPAA Penalty 400,000 reasons to check your network security. Want to avoid a HIPAA penalty? Do you know… What a firewall is? The difference between a firewall and the simple network routers most of us use ...
The latest HIPAA data breach penalty reported by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) includes some simple but important messages for all health care organizations and their Business Associates. The OCR press ...
Need a cure for ‘HIPAA Surprise’ ? The HIPAA Privacy Rule included the requirement for Business Associate management … back in 2003. The ...
Strengthening Your HIPAA Business Associate Chain (From my EMRapproved HIT Security weekly blog) HIPAA Business Associates – You aren’t alone in protecting patient data Many HIPAA covered entities don’t know (or don’t care) about managing their HIPAA Business Associate relationships. ...
HIPAA Doesn’t Require Data Encryption, but You Should (From my EMRapproved HIT Security weekly blog) Save millions if laptops have data encryption Every time there is a HIPAA data breach penalty for a lost laptop or hard drive, Office for ...