According to a report to Congress from The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), there have been almost 8 million records breached since 2009. That is a staggering number. What is worse it that the number of data breaches continues to increase. Another way of looking at it is that we are only in...
One of the most important aspects of complying with the HIPAA Security Rule is to perform a risk assessment to evaluate how an organization is protecting patient data. The results of the risk assessment provide a playbook for how additional protections can lower the risk to patient information. Let’s take a closer look at the...
In a very embarrassing and ironic turn of events, KPMG announced that they had a data breach that involved 4,500 patient records. KPMG has been selected by The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to perform HIPAA compliance audits. So it appears that the company that will do HIPAA audits has experienced a HIPAA related data...
Health Info Security has published the transcript from an interview with Susan McAndrew of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. The article is very good and should be read in its entirety. Below are some of the key points. When asked if business associates as well as covered entities will...
Susan McAndrew, deputy director of The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) gives a very insightful interview to Howard Anderson, Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com. There are a lot of good points and I suggest reading the whole interview. I will point out a few of the highlights. When asked about who will be audited, McAndrew was...
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they have awarded a $9.2 million contract to the consulting firm KPMG. KPMG will develop the process and perform the HIPAA audits. There will be an estimated 150 onsite audits by the end of 2012. “Site visits conducted as part of every audit...
Microsoft’s latest cloud based service called Office 365 was recently released. More than 200,000 organizations participated in the beta testing period. Office 365 provides the following: Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service, at a predictable monthly subscription. In addition, Microsoft is trying to target...
Working with clients over the years, we have come to the conclusion that most people hate HIPAA. There we said it! Fortunately we don’t take it personally because we actually understand why people hate HIPAA. Here are a few valid reasons. HIPAA is confusing HIPAA is boring HIPAA is expensive HIPAA gets in the way...
Entegration, Inc. Joins MedTech For Solutions Group Purchasing Organization as a New Vendor Morristown, NJ, June 04, 2011 –(PR.com)– Entegration, Inc. (Entegration) is pleased to announce that they have joined MedTech For Solutions Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) (MedTech) as a new vendor. This partnership will enable Entegration to provide Information Technology (IT) services to the...
In a previous post I discussed the risk of having patient information on smartphones. I ended the post with stating that a HIPAA Risk Assessment can help reveal where security measures are needed. Let’s look at that a little more in depth. Many people are confused as to what a HIPAA Risk Assessment is. Here...
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