The Number One HIPAA Requirement – the HIPAA Risk Analysis
HIPAA Risk Analysis and Your Critical Starting Point The HIPAA Risk Analysis is so important that it is the first item defined in the HIPAA Security Rule, ...
HIPAA Compliant Data Access
HIPAA Compliant Data – Who Can Get to What, and Why Before you give your employees HIPAA compliant access to patient data you must do ...
New $400,000 HIPAA Penalty
Want to avoid a 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 ...
HIPAA Compliant E-mail: Myths & Facts
Understand What Constitutes HIPAA Compliant E-mail Every day I get questions about HIPAA compliant e-mail, and many days I see or hear something that leads healthcare organizations and their business associates in the wrong direction. These Myths and Facts can ...
HIPAA Business Associate Myths and Facts
Make your vendors (HIPAA Business Associates ) accountable NOW, or pay a big price HIPAA Business Associatecompliance can spell big trouble for medical practices, because many practice managers have not done a thorough job managing their vendors. Many of the ...
Make Training Easy to Avoid a HIPAA Penalty
A HIPAA Penalty Can Be Avoided Using Key Online Tools and Training Technology can only go so far in protecting data and avoiding a HIPAA penalty, but your employees have an almost limitless ability to make mistakes, take shortcuts, or ...
HIPAA Compliant Practices Earn Meaningful Use Money
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 Compliance and Meaningful Use Tech Tips
HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Technical Requirements You May Not Understand HIPAA Compliance can be a mystery. It can be even more mysterious when you don’t understand technology. When you dig deep and try to understand the tasks and procedures you need ...
STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and other tests to find out what is going on under a patient’s skin. Vulnerability testing can identify what Meaningful Use compliance risks ...
Is Your Copier a Hidden HIPAA Risk?
Health plan pays $ 1.2 million for failure to recognize HIPAA risk Remember when copiers were simple—just paper in, copies out? Once they began scanning and faxing, copiers evolved not just in capability, but as a HIPAA risk. A health ...