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Top 10 ridiculous overheard HIPAA statements
After performing over 1,000 HIPAA Security Risk Assessments, you can imagine that we have heard some ridiculous statements concerning HIPAA. There is a LOT of misinformation about HIPAA. Here are the...
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Infographic: HIPAA, We Have a Problem
Interesting Infographic on healthcare professionals’ knowledge of HIPAA regulations from NueMD Free HIPAA Security Training! All Covered Entities and Business Associates need to train their employees...
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I Won I Won the Audit!
Today started like every other day until I opened an email from a client. Below is a excerpt of the email: I Won I Won I Won I won the audit. Many thanks to you. I have been giving out your website...
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OIG increases the pressure of Meaningful Use audits
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) will begin auditing individual providers to determine if they met Meaningful Use requirements. Currently the Centers...
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ONC releases guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has just released a valuable resource called: Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information Here is a look at...
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Starbucks data breach shows the real damage of a breach
Starbucks has a big problem. Don’t worry, they will still sell you their $5 cup of coffee. The problem they are dealing with is the repercussions of a data breach. The breach is connected with...
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2015 HIPAA Audits – A Step Closer
There has been a lot of talk about the next round of HIPAA Audits. While the rollout of the audits have been delayed a few times, it now looks like they are about to start. The clear sign is that a the...
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HIPAA Secure Now! Appoints Jonathan Krasner to Head Business Development,...
Krasner brings 25 years of IT and seven years of Healthcare IT, HIPAA and Meaningful Use experience to HIPAA Secure Now! Morristown, NJ (PRWEB) June 04, 2015 HIPAA Secure Now!, a HIPAA compliance...
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Audits are only one way of coming under the HIPAA microscope
Now that the 2015 HIPAA Audits have begun, organizations are reevaluating their HIPAA compliance posture. This is a good thing being that an organization will have very little time to respond to...
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The Security Risks of Medical Devices
There are a large number of potential attack vectors on any network. Medical devices on a healthcare network is certainly one of them. While medical devices represent a potential threat, it is...
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Recorded Webinar: How to Avoid HIPAA-Related Breaches
Art Gross, President and CEO of HIPAA Secure Now!, participated in an American Osteopathic Association (AOA) webinar on 2015 HIPAA Audits and How to Avoid HIPAA Related Breaches. The recorded webinar...
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Wall of Shame now at 143 million breached individuals
Hacking and breaches of healthcare data continue to happen. The scale of the breaches are increasing as well. According to an article over at Data Breach Today, 143 million individuals have had their...
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It’s Not Just Large Data Breaches That Matter
We are all well aware of the epidemic of large data breaches that have been occurring recently. Anthem, Blue Cross, UCLA, the list goes on and on. Over 143 million records breached to date – an...
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$750,000 HIPAA fine offers valuable lessons
On September 2, 2015 The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing a $750,000 HIPAA settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C. This large fine offers some very important lessons....
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OCR squeezed between OIG and funding restraints
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) has issued a report that is critical of the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”). OIG concluded that OCR is not fulfilling...
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HIPAA compliance is a business risk
Medicine is Risky The practice of medicine is a risky business. There is always the risk that a certain treatment will fail to help a patient. There is a risk of being accused of malpractice. There is...
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Average cost per lost health care record is $363
A recent study by the Ponemon Institute calculated the cost of a healthcare related data breach to be $363 per record. This was the highest amount across all industries. A financial data breach cost...
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Dropbox Business will now sign a HIPAA BAA
Dropbox announced at the Dropbox Open event that their business product is now HIPAA compliant. Dropbox Business is a business version of the consumer file sync product. Dropbox announced that they...
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Healthcare Data Breaches Cost $6 Billion A Year (Infographic)
Royal Jay has developed an interesting infographic on healthcare breaches Highlights: 19 out of 20 organizations had at least one breach in the last 2 years The cost of a healthcare related breach is...
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Why is HIPAA compliance and security so weak?
Computerworld has an excellent article called Healthcare security and HIPAA: Why compliance and security are still lacking. The author does a very good job of trying to figure out why there are so...
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