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On September 2, 2015 The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing a $750,000 HIPAA settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C. This large fine offers some very important lessons. Let’s take a closer look: Cancer Care Group is a mid-size practice. They have 18 physicians. It is important to note the...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has just released a valuable resource called: Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information Here is a look at the information included in the guide: [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Understand a HIPAA / Meaningful Use Risk Assessment Organizations need to perform a Risk Assessment...
Security experts have been predicting that large healthcare related data breaches will continue into 2015. With the Anthem Inc., breach of 80 million records this prediction is now a reality. An article over at Forbes explores why healthcare data is so valuable. Here are some of the reasons: Quantity of information—Think of the 15 pages...
An article over at Physicians Practice gives some useful tips to avoid HIPAA fines. 1) Conduct or update your security risk assessment required by the security rules – A security risk assessment is the core of the HIPAA security rule 2) Implement the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required by the HIPAA security rule –...
HIPAA Secure Now! Signs Agreement with the American Osteopathic Association, Provides Full Array of HIPAA Compliance Services to 100,000-Plus Members (PRWEB) October 21, 2014 HIPAA Secure Now! has forged a partnership with the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to help members become fully compliant with HIPAA rules for protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI). Members will...
A prospective client asked for our help after receiving a HIPAA audit letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). OCR sent the client the letter after one of the client’s business associates experienced a HIPAA related breach. I won’t give any additional information on the client, the business associate or details of the security...
Hot off the American Medical Association (AMA) Wire, a service that provides news and information to AMA members, is a reminder that the HIPAA audits will resume this year. The AMA Wire reminds members that the HIPAA audits will start as early as this summer If you haven’t conducted a privacy and security risk assessment...
Here is a quote from one of our IT partners: My client got physically upset at me when I brought up the topic of HIPAA. They didn’t want to discuss it and said it was just another government regulation and they just want to practice medicine. While I was shocked to hear someone actually say...
Our job at HIPAA Secure Now! is to help our clients comply with HIPAA regulations. As part of that process we try to educate our clients and their employees on the importance of protecting patient privacy. We use examples of HIPAA violations to help clients understand some of the concepts of HIPAA such as; what...
When it comes to complying with the HIPAA Security and Omnibus Rules, there is a lot of confusion as to what needs to be done. And if you look at the amount of work it can be overwhelming; security risk assessment, employee training, policies and procedures, business associates, breach notification, encryption, disaster recovery to name...
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