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Technology Tips for HIPAA Compliance

Technology Tips for HIPAA Compliance: Overview  While HIPAA does not include any specific technologies in its requirements, it is easy to connect dots between the HIPAA rules, guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST,) and HIPAA enforcement ...

Five Lessons Learned from HIPAA Penalties

Healthcare Business Month: Five Lessons Learned from HIPAA Penalties Pay Attention to Privacy and Security Rules, or You May Pay Out of Your Pocket! HIPAA enforcement is skyrocketing.  In 2015, there were $6.1 million in HIPAA penalties. By the end ...

10 Things to Include in a Business Continuity Plan

You Can't Afford NOT to Have a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan… 10 Things to Include Business Continuity planning is key to protecting your investment in your business.  During and after a disaster, a written plan is required so you can continue ...

How to Write Winning Proposals

How to Write Winning Proposals Right now we have a proposal out to a small hotel for a wireless network. It doesn’t highlight our products or all of our industry certifications. Instead, the proposal focuses on how this company will ...

How to Protect Your Clients from … You

How to Protect Your Clients from … You The tools that make it easy to manage a client’s network can also make it easy for ex-employees to hurt you and your customers. By Mike Semel AN MSP who had just ...

Managing Business Associates under 2013 HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule

Managing Business Associates under the 2013 HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule In 2003 HIPAA defined health care providers and payers as Covered Entities. Organizations that support Covered Entities and come in contact with Protected Health Information (PHI) are Business Associates.  Business ...

Texting is Not HIPAA Secure

Texting is Not HIPAA Secure  By John Lynn John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR ...

Why Security and Compliance Are Executive Responsibilities

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 deal with it later trying ...

How to Avoid Multi-Million-Dollar HIPAA Phone and Data Penalties

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 Imaging, partly because Touchstone “failed ...