Publication: Medical Practice Insider Patient portals seem like the logical next step for a healthcare system that’s becoming increasingly more reliant on electronic health records and other various digital constructs.

Publication: Business Solutions Magazine “Security is the place to focus on now and in the future,” advises Art Gross, president and CEO of HIPAA Secure Now! “It’s not going away.”

Publication: Dermatology Times Criminals are after your patients’ medical records, plain and simple. The number of criminal cyberattacks reported by healthcare organizations jumped to 40% in 2013 from 20% in 2009, according to an annual survey by the Ponemon Institute. Whether it’s an ex-employee with a grudge, a crime ring defrauding the government, or a...

Publication: Medical Practice Insider Small and midsize physician practices confronted challenges seemingly from every direction during 2014. Doctors and industry observers voiced their views on the realities of contemporary practice in these memorable quotes from Medical Practice Insider’s coverage of the year just concluded.

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Publication: Dermatology Times Here’s a cautionary tale: A medical practice comes to us in a panic. It turns out the physician had received a letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) ordering an investigation related to a patient data breach – not his own.

Publication: Dermatology Times Back in 2013 Adult & Pediatric Dermatology of Concord, Massachusetts, was hit with a $150,000 HIPAA fine for an unencrypted thumb drive that stored more than 2,200 patient records and was stolen from a staff member’s car. Not only did the dermatology group owe the hefty sum, it joined the ranks of...

Publication: Dermatology Times The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulls no punches when it warns healthcare providers that meaningful use audits are happening, at random, and consequences for failing the audit are costly. If a provider cannot produce documentation that fully supports its electronic health record (EHR) attestation, the CMS could recoup incentive...

Publication: Medical Practice Insider So you’ve taken all the steps to align your practice with HIPAA mandates — you’ve conducted a risk assessment, you keep regular tabs on your encryption functionality and you’ve memorized your breach disaster plan by heart.You’re ready; the problem is, your business associates may not be.

Publication: InformationWeek A Saturday night phone call gave no indication it heralded months of bureaucracy, finger pointing, expense — and the dismal realization that even the smallest healthcare provider is liable and harmed when a business associate suffers a HIPAA breach.