HIPAA Security Tips and Reminders – Protecting Your Laptop
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OCR gives more insight into increased HIPAA enforcement
Leon Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), spoke this week at the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston. Rodriquez gave some interesting insight into where HIPAA enforcement is going. The permanent audit program is scheduled to be in place the beginning of 2014....
Won’t make the Omnibus deadline? It is never too late to be compliant
September 23, 2013, the official date that HIPAA Omnibus regulations are enforced. One of the results of the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule is that it has raised awareness of HIPAA regulations. Existing covered entities (hospitals, physicians, dentists, chiropractors) and business associates (IT companies, medical billing, law firms, etc.) are scurrying around in efforts to be...
The AMA releases toolkit to help organizations comply with HIPAA Omnibus Rule
The American Medical Association (AMA) released a toolkit that helps organizations understand and comply with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule changes. Below is the table of contents from the toolkit (click on image to access the PDF toolkit). The toolkit gives a very good overview of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule changes. In addition to the overview...
HIPAA Compliance: Will you have a good story?
Here is a secret that compliance experts have known for a long time: It is very difficult to be 100% compliant with HIPAA regulations Of course, you have probably seen claims like these: Buy our product and we will make you HIPAA compliant Compliance in a box! Be HIPAA compliant in 30 days! Snake oil...
960,000,000 Reasons to Encrypt Patient Information
Chicago based Advocate Medical Group announced that a burglary at their administrative office has resulted in a breach of 4 million patient records. Immediately after discovering that four computers were stolen, that same day, the Park Ridge Police Department was notified. AMG then launched an investigation and discovered that while the computers did not contain...
Trendjacking the latest threat to patient information
Steve Thom wrote an interesting article called Trendjacking threats are a growing concern. Trendjacking is a refined phishing scam. Thom defines the term Trendjacking as: The term is “Trendjacking”, and it refers to spammers and malware authors using current trends to trick you into opening malicious email messages. Trendjacking scams are emails that come from...
Your employees will cause your next HIPAA breach
When people think of HIPAA breaches a lot of times they think of hackers breaking into a network and stealing patient information. While that is a real concern, another cause of breaches should not be ignored. What is the other cause of breaches you should be concern with? Your employees. Employees cause HIPAA breaches. In...
HIPAA Omnibus Rule Enforcement Countdown
HIPAA Omnibus Rule Enforcement Countdown [framed_box bgColor=”#d5d5d5″ textColor=”#BC1310″ rounded=”true”] HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule enforcement begins on September 23, 2013 [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”09/23/2013″] Eastern Standard Time [/framed_box] Are you ready? (Click on the links below for more information) Covered Entities Have you performed a Risk Assessment? Have you provided HIPAA security training for all employees? Do you...
The threat of thumb drives to patient data
In the past you would need a truck to steal 10,000 patient’s charts. Now you can download a report out of an EHR and copy it to a thumb drive and stick it in your pocket. In an interesting article over at Business Insider called: The Biggest Threat To National Security Is The Thumb Drive,...
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