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HIPAA & Medical Devices
The human factor is something of huge consideration within the HIPAA and healthcare landscape. With that industry being a huge target already within the world of cybercrime, where do medical devices...
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Please Complete This Form
You walk into your healthcare provider’s office and are usually handed a clipboard with papers that need to be filled out, updated, and wrapped up with your signature. We mindlessly take our task to...
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Hover Hover Hover
At times, it feels as if we could start every week with this sentence: “There’s a new tactic being used by cybercriminals to trick unsuspecting victims.” And the sophistication level of the new...
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Right to Access Enforcement Initiative
In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an initiative that they would make it a priority to enforce an individual’s right to...
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Second Largest Fine
Coming in second can sometimes be a good thing. But not when you’re on the receiving end of a HIPAA fine and have to pay out $6.9 million like Premera Blue Cross. The insurer is the largest health...
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Systemic Noncompliance
The story narrative varies slightly from episode to episode, but the outcome is generally the same. Pay a fine, make a plan, regret not doing this all in the first place. This isn’t some soap opera...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month
We’re halfway through this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and never has it been more important to make sure that you are informed and making smart cyber choices in both your personal and...
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Wearable Technology
The saying goes that you’re never fully dressed without a smile, but the reality for many people today is that you’re never fully dressed until you put on your smartwatch. Or your phone in your...
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Notification Rule
Timing is Everything A data breach within your business. You think it won’t happen, you hope it doesn’t happen, but what if it does happen? What are your next steps? Like most things in healthcare,...
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No Business Is Too Small
It Happens Everywhere While the world might still be in varying states of chaos with regard to a multitude of topics, when it comes to HIPAA fines and enforcement of regulations, things are getting...
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HITECH Act
This week we’re taking a look at the HITECH Act and an overview of what it is and how it relates to HIPAA. Formed in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)...
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HIPAA & the Media
Can a journalist reveal an individual’s COVID-19 diagnosis or are they in violation of HIPAA laws by doing so? Healthcare and the diagnosis of a person’s well-being are private information in general,...
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Threat to Healthcare
We have had quite a year so far in 2020, and if you are in healthcare, you were hit especially hard with something that you likely didn’t adequately prepare to deal with. However, according to a...
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Potential Changes Ahead
The Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that could be substantial. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposal stated it was to...
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Safe Harbor Bill
In our blog earlier this year that provided an overview of 2009’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH Act) we discussed how this was designed to promote the use of...
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Year-End Health Report
Ideally, we have a health physical once a year. We assess what we are doing right, what we are doing wrong, and make modifications to our overall wellness plan as needed. Hopefully, nothing is...
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Learn From Others
The office for Civil Rights gathered information at the end of 2020 that is important for any covered entity or business associate that operates under HIPAA guidelines. Summarized in the U.S. Health...
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What If Employees Refuse the Vaccine?
In healthcare, we want to assume that we are collectively working to advance medicine and whatever the latest developments are, well we want “in”. What if that development is the COVID-19 vaccine and...
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As the Rules Apply
This week in HIPAA news we are shining a light on two rules that display the spectrum of ‘bending’ from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The first,...
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Remote Working & Healthcare
We have seen the healthcare industry rise to the occasion this past year. Stepping up in more ways than can be counted and doing so under extraordinary conditions. Telehealth does offer a viable...
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