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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 Top 10 ridiculous overheard HIPAA statements: 10) My IT company won’t sign the Business Associate Agreement because they said it is not valid unless...
The column Dear Abby gives advice to a wife who illegally accessed her husband’s medical records. Read the whole article here. DEAR CONCERNED: Unless you claim to be clairvoyant, I don’t see how you can discuss this without admitting you accessed his medical records, which is against the law. Be prepared for him to be...
The following is a guest post by James Hinton In 1854 John Snow had a moment. At the time it hadn’t seemed like that significant an event, but Dr. Snow’s use of collected data and maps to pinpoint the source of a cholera outbreak in London started something. Though it started small, Big Data and Geographic...
The below infographic gives some frightening facts about healthcare related breaches. Click on the image to see the whole infographic Source: Datamotion [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Free HIPAA Security Training! All Covered Entities and Business Associates need to train their employees on HIPAA security. We now offer free online HIPAA security training for Covered Entities and...
The total budget request (PDF) for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is $83 billion. This includes $43 million for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) which is a $4 million increase over the 2015 budget. The increase will help support the permanent HIPAA audit process. OCR conducted a pilot program to ensure...
On a blog post over at the CMS website, it has been announced that CMS will shorten the Meaningful Use 2015 reporting period to 90 day. Currently the 2015 reporting period is 365 days. Today, we at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are pleased to announce our intent to engage in rulemaking...
An article over at Physicians Practice gives some useful tips to avoid HIPAA fines. 1) Conduct or update your security risk assessment required by the security rules – A security risk assessment is the core of the HIPAA security rule 2) Implement the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required by the HIPAA security rule –...
With the start of a new year, many organizations take a second look at their business and make necessary changes. 2015 is looking like a challenging year in terms of data security. The New Year brings back the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA audits. Both HIPAA Covered Entities (CEs) and Business Associates (BAs) will...
According to the Herald-Tribune, a registered nurse working in the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room was fired and arrest for using patients’ credit card information. While investigating separate fraudulent credit card cases, detectives determined the victims’ information had been stolen while receiving treatment at the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room, according to the...
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