Publication: Medical Economics Until you’ve opened a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) notifying you that your practice is being audited for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, you won’t realize the gravity of the situation.

Publication: AAOS Headlines about data breaches draw attention to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Security Rule. However, its companion—the HIPAA Privacy Rule—is just as important. Although the two rules work hand-in-hand, they are based on different concepts. The Security Rule oversees the mechanisms used to protect the privacy of electronic patient health...

Publication: Medical Economics Until you’ve opened a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) notifying you that your practice is being audited for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, you won’t realize the gravity of the situation.

Publication: CRN The challenge, Gross said, is that many health-care organizations are still taking the “it can’t happen to me” attitude toward security. On a smaller scale relative to many of the health-care breaches so far this year, Gross said that he hopes the Excellus incident will alert smaller insurance and medical companies that hackers...

Publication: Physicans Practice But just like a negative restaurant review on Yelp can hurt customer patronage and the restaurant’s reputation, one practice that commits a HIPAA violation can affect the entire group, and result in an expensive fine, cause distrust among patients, and in extreme cases, the data breach can lead to medical identity theft.

Publication: American Osteopathic Association Join Art Gross, president and CEO at HIPAA Secure Now!, to learn how to prepare for the recent Office of Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA audits. Understand the need for a Security Risk Assessment, HIPAA Security and Privacy Policies, and Employee Training.