Why Security and Compliance Are Executive Responsibilities By Mike Semel Preventing Executive-Level Embarrassment and Career Damage Your executive team can deal with security and compliance now, and invest adequate attention and resources, or they can …
How to Avoid Multi-Million-Dollar HIPAA Phone & Data Penalties Mike Semel Why is There Still So Much Confusion, Denial, and Deception? The Office for Civil Rights just announced a $3 million penalty against Touchstone Medical …
Less Than a Year to Replace Windows 7 and Server 2008 Mike Semel When Microsoft ends support you will be unsecure and noncompliant! Time is running out. And you probably don’t have the resources you …
First published at HHS says Security and Compliance Require Actions, then Policies by Mike Semel, President, Semel Consulting The common-sense, scalable, and actionable cybersecurity guidance recently released by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …
HIPAA by the Numbers 17,000 patient records breached per day, on average. (September 2009 to Present, HHS.gov) $ 188 average cost per breached record. (Ponemon 2014 Cost of a Data Breach Survey) Black-market …
A HIPAA Life Sentence… and SO Many Lessons By Mike Semel In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation. In 2018 New …
What You Can Learn from the Russian Army, the US Navy, and a Suspended Nurse by Mike Semel Originally published by: The General Counsel at one of our clients is a former district attorney who …
By Mike Semel Originally published by Would you put a $ 10 fence around a $ 100 horse? Does it make sense to put a $ 100 fence around a $ 10 horse? For the right security, you need …
Windows XP The question of compliance is not a technical argument. It’s a question about regulatory compliance and enforcement. You can read all the technical discussions on the forum about HIPAA and XP, but none …
Originally Published at Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Mike Semel as the latest addition to the Healthcare Scene blog team. We’ve been working with Mike for quite a while as a guest blogger, so …