HIPAA Compliant Data – Who Can Get to What, and Why
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
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 ...
2013 Disaster Checklist
Hurricane Season is starting. We see news about tornadoes in the Heartland and wildfires in California. Is your family prepared? How about your business? Please share this with your family ...
Latest HIPAA Data Breach Penalty Contains Important Messages
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’ ?
Need a cure for ‘HIPAA Surprise’ ? The HIPAA Privacy Rule included the requirement for Business Associate management … back in 2003. The ...
7 Reasons Why Business Continuity Plans Fail: Avoid the Pitfalls
7 Reasons Why Business Continuity Plans Fail: Avoid the Pitfalls Here are a few reasons why business continuity plans fail, and how to avoid them. 1. Unrealistic Expectations Many plans are created expecting that power, cell phones, phone lines, Internet, ...
Strengthening Your HIPAA Business Associate Chain
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. ...