We had a discussion with a potential client today. We were explaining the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule. The client stopped us and said: I am a small provider practice. I never heard of HIPAA security. Are you sure I need to do this? No one ever mentioned this to me. Not my lawyer,...
Morristown, NJ (SBWIRE) – July 23, 2013 –HIPAA Secure Now! announced today that the HIPAA Secure Now! annual HIPAA compliance subscription will include $100,000 of financial protection from HIPAA breach and violation expenses. The financial protection will be included in the HIPAA Secure Now! annual compliance subscription for 50 employees or less. The financial protection...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has some great resources to help healthcare organizations ensure privacy and security of health information. Privacy & Security Training Games ONC has a very good privacy and security training game. The game gives real life scenarios and has the player make privacy and security...
Big HIPAA penalties and fines make great news headlines. Recently the managed care company WellPoint Inc. agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine to settle potential HIPAA violations. False sense of security Large fines make headlines and show that violating HIPAA regulations can be very expensive. Unfortunately it can have an opposite effect as well....
We have previously written about the risk of business associates (BAs) to patient information here and here. Now we have another large data breach caused by a hospital’s business associate. An article over at the Star Telegram goes into the details. A contractor for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth failed to destroy hundreds...
Mobile devices including laptops, tablets and smartphones are a growing threat to patient information. We wrote about how many organizations fail to realize how much protected health information (PHI) is on mobile devices. Ponemon Study In a very insightful study called The Risk of Regulated Data on Mobile Devices & in the Cloud, the risks...
HHS released a short video (under 2 minutes) in 2012 that briefly explains the HIPAA Security Rule. With the upcoming HIPAA Omnibus Rule enforcement and the expanded regulation to Business Associates, we thought we would post the video again. Note the push to implement encryption to protect patient records! HHS OCR – HIPAA Security Rule...
Recently we wrote about gang members stealing patient information and filing false tax returns and we wrote about meth dealers stealing patient information to obtain the materials to manufacture methamphetamine. Once again a there is a case where a hospital employee is accused of stealing patient information and selling it in exchange for crack cocaine....
The one thing you can say is that there are no 3 strikes and you are out when it comes to HIPAA breaches. Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. recently suffered its 5th HIPAA breach since 2009. The most recent breach involved a stolen unencrypted laptop that contained 13,000 patient records. What makes this even...
We have written about various HIPAA breaches but this breach is much easier to identify with. An article over at The Tampa Bay Times explains how a patient’s secret was exposed by a relative that was snooping in an EHR. Not only did the relative access her family member’s records inappropriately but she breached her...
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