Introduction: The Human Element When it comes to healthcare today, many employees are incredibly busy, exhausted, and bogged down by tedious administrative tasks. Cyber criminals rely on these factors to trick distracted employees into falling for social engineering scams. Common red flags like suspicious sender addresses, unexpected attachments, and urgent language can easily be missed...
All too often, annual trainings feel more like nothing more than an obligatory burden, when in reality, they’re a fundamental support in the ever-changing realm of compliance. HIPAA Secure Now recognizes the importance of high-quality training that not only informs but also engages employees effectively. Our annual cybersecurity and HIPAA training courses depart from conventional...
The pandemic pivot that seemed as if it would be temporary a few years ago, those behaviors that redirected how we work and live, is now a seemingly permanent modification. Remote work, telehealth, and the increasing use of products that are part of the IoT, or the internet of things, have provided us with increased...
October 1, 2019 — HIPAA Secure Now! today announced its commitment to National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), held annually in October, by signing up as a Champion and joining a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. NCSAM is a collaborative effort among businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, associations, nonprofit...
Congress may be poised to roll back the Affordable Care Act, but HIPAA and MACRA, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid’s (CMS) new model for reimbursements, are as certain to remain as death and taxes. Moreover, MACRA and HIPAA go hand in hand. Physicians cannot participate in MACRA, which went into effect on January 1,...
Tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored programming and Bloomberg International on Sunday, June 26, 2016. See market-by-market listings below. Los Angeles, CA – June 23, 2016 — Secure Now! President/CEO Art Gross will soon appear on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. Gross will share his expertise in the small and mid-sized business...
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...
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