An article over at Healthcare IT News titled Get set: New HIPAA has teeth gives insight into the increased HIPAA enforcement that is looming. Diana Manos interviewed Jorge Rey, an associate principal and the director of information security and compliance for Kaufman, Rossin for the article. Rey provides some insight into some of the changes...
We have put together some useful information on Microsoft’s HIPAA compliant cloud based Office 365 service. The Office 365 suite of products enables communication and collaboration while providing the required HIPAA security to protect patient information. Microsoft is the only leading cloud provider that will sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement. Our Microsoft Office 365...
This is a guest post from C. Patrick Felicetta. Patrick is the Entegration, Inc. Chief Operating Officer (COO). He gives some good insight into some of the advantages of Microsoft’s cloud based Office 365 service. For the past 13 years Entegration, Inc., a computer networking company, has specialized in meeting the IT needs of healthcare...
I came across an article on HIStalk Practice that describes exactly what happens when a laptop containing patient information is stolen from an employee’s car. The stolen laptop cost the company around $300,000. An analysis and breakdown of the costs are provided in the article. A few things to note about the article: The article...
The Gloucester, MA Fire Department Ambulance Service experienced a HIPAA security breach when one of its billing company’s employees improperly accessed and disclosed patient account information. The employee was involved in a scheme to file false federal tax return. The Gloucester Fire Department Ambulance Service posted a substitute data breach notice on the Gloucester government...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released a very good video that explains the push towards Electronic Health Records (EHR). The video is aimed at patients so they understand Health IT and the push to upgrade technology. From the ONC website: Health Information Technology, or Health IT for short,...
We have received a lot of questions from our clients regarding the changes to HIPAA from the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. The most common question to date has been around Business Associate Agreements (BAAs). The questions come from covered entities as well as business associates. The question is basically the same for a different perspective. We...
My inbox had a lot of emails from LinkedIn today. I sent several requests to connect last night and I received notifications that these people accepted the invitation. But a few of the notifications were about people I didn’t even know. My first reaction was to click on the link to go to LinkedIn and...
Make HIPAA easy When we started to build the HIPAA Secure Now! service, we had 2 goals. Those goals were to help clients with protecting patient information and to “make HIPAA easy”. We realize most organizations hate HIPAA. We thought if we could build a service with the following characteristics, clients may not love HIPAA...
Office for Civil Rights Director Leon Rodriguez presented at the HIMSS13 conference Monday morning. His message was very clear. Organizations that make an effort to protect patient information by the use of encryption and organizations that respond and learn from breaches will be much better off. Organization’s “willful neglect” of the HIPAA regulations and failure...
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