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...
The Federal government is not being shy or covert about the increase in HIPAA enforcement that is about to occur. Covered Entities (Physician Practices and Hospitals) as well as Business Associates (Contractors and Subcontractors of Covered Entities) should have no doubt that compliance with HIPAA is no longer an optional activity. There is no way...
As we mentioned here and here, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule has a significant impact on HIPAA Business Associates. There is some debate over exactly who is a Business Associate regarding Cloud Providers. One thing that seems clear is, if you are storing protected health information (PHI) unencrypted at a Cloud Provider, the Cloud Provider most...
In a previous blog we discussed the new HIPAA Omnibus regulations as they related to Business Associates (BA). Let’s take a look at the HIPAA Omnibus regulations for Business Associates as they relate to Covered Entities (CE). Business Associates Agreements CEs have been required to have Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with BAs for quite a...
There is lots of buzz about the changes to Business Associates under the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule. Let’s take a look at some of the items that both Covered Entities (CE) and Business Associates (BA) should know about the new HIPAA changes. Who are Business Associates? The definition of Business Associates for the most part...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is advising people to disable Java in their browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, etc.). According to a CBS News report: The recommendation came in an advisory issued late Thursday, following up on concerns raised by computer security experts. Experts believe hackers have found a flaw in Java’s coding that...
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