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WZZM13 is reporting that several employees of Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI have been fired over a picture of a patient posted on Facebook. A source tells WZZM 13 News that an off-duty employee was in the emergency room when he saw an attractive female. He took a picture of her back side and...
HealthITSecurity.com has a very good article called What the HIPAA Omnibus Rule meant for healthcare in 2013 They give a good overview of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and its impact. What I found even more interesting is some of the comments by OCR regarding their plans for 2014. It gives clear insight into the permanent...
Microsoft recently released a research website that will help prevent the use of weak passwords. Weak passwords can be easily guessed and can put sensitive information including patient information at risk. The new site is called Telepathwords According to Microsoft: How does Telepathwords work: Telepathwords tries to predict the next character of your passwords by...
Morristown, NJ — (SBWIRE) — 12/10/2013 — HIPAA Secure Now! (HSN) announced today a low cost HIPAA security service aimed at organizations with 10 or fewer employees. The new service called the HIPAA Basic Service includes a thorough HIPAA / Meaningful Use risk assessment, HIPAA security training / compliance testing for all employees and 1...
Nobody thinks complying with the HIPAA Security and Omnibus Rules are easy. Both HIPAA regulations are hundreds of pages long, require a lot of understanding, planning, policies and technology to be in full compliance. It should be noted that there is a huge difference between not complying, trying to comply and being in full compliance...
Microsoft used to be one of the only large cloud providers that was willing to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA). That has changed now that Google has announced that they will sign a BAA for customers that use their Google Apps platform. Google Apps includes: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Apps...
Leon Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), spoke this week at the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston. Rodriquez gave some interesting insight into where HIPAA enforcement is going. The permanent audit program is scheduled to be in place the beginning of 2014....
September 23, 2013, the official date that HIPAA Omnibus regulations are enforced. One of the results of the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule is that it has raised awareness of HIPAA regulations. Existing covered entities (hospitals, physicians, dentists, chiropractors) and business associates (IT companies, medical billing, law firms, etc.) are scurrying around in efforts to be...
The American Medical Association (AMA) released a toolkit that helps organizations understand and comply with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule changes. Below is the table of contents from the toolkit (click on image to access the PDF toolkit). The toolkit gives a very good overview of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule changes. In addition to the overview...
Steve Thom wrote an interesting article called Trendjacking threats are a growing concern. Trendjacking is a refined phishing scam. Thom defines the term Trendjacking as: The term is “Trendjacking”, and it refers to spammers and malware authors using current trends to trick you into opening malicious email messages. Trendjacking scams are emails that come from...
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