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 ...
Do you have a Disaster Plan?
A Disaster Plan for You, Your Family, and Your Business Health care organizations need HIPAA disaster plans to comply with regulations and also because it is smart business. While disasters can happen anywhere and anytime, this time of year always sees an overlap of ...
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 ...
Doc, HIPAA Compliance is Part of My Health Care
Why Doctors Should Care About HIPAA Compliance Every day I talk with doctors (or others who talk with doctors) and am told that HIPAA compliance is an unnecessary expense, proof that the government is interfering in our lives, not important ...