Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they have awarded a $9.2 million contract to the consulting firm KPMG. KPMG will develop the process and perform the HIPAA audits. There will be an estimated 150 onsite audits by the end of 2012. “Site visits conducted as part of every audit...
Microsoft’s latest cloud based service called Office 365 was recently released. More than 200,000 organizations participated in the beta testing period. Office 365 provides the following: Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service, at a predictable monthly subscription. In addition, Microsoft is trying to target...
Working with clients over the years, we have come to the conclusion that most people hate HIPAA. There we said it! Fortunately we don’t take it personally because we actually understand why people hate HIPAA. Here are a few valid reasons. HIPAA is confusing HIPAA is boring HIPAA is expensive HIPAA gets in the way...
Entegration, Inc. Joins MedTech For Solutions Group Purchasing Organization as a New Vendor Morristown, NJ, June 04, 2011 –(PR.com)– Entegration, Inc. (Entegration) is pleased to announce that they have joined MedTech For Solutions Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) (MedTech) as a new vendor. This partnership will enable Entegration to provide Information Technology (IT) services to the...
In a previous post I discussed the risk of having patient information on smartphones. I ended the post with stating that a HIPAA Risk Assessment can help reveal where security measures are needed. Let’s look at that a little more in depth. Many people are confused as to what a HIPAA Risk Assessment is. Here...
The problem with HIPAA compliance and security in general is that there are so many products and services on the market, how does one decide which are the right ones? Let’s not discuss a HIPAA security service (although we hope you choose HIPAA Secure Now!) but let’s look at after you have taken the first...
I had a conversation with a group of physicians a couple weeks ago that shed some interesting light on where patient information resides and how to protect it. Each of the 5 physicians had a smartphone of various manufacturers. Two had iPhones, two had Android phones and one had a Blackberry phone. I asked the...
Joplin, MO was hit by a massive tornado on Sunday evening that did extensive damage to the St. John’s Regional Medical Center hospital. There are reports that x-rays from the hospital have been found in driveways 70 miles east of the hospital. On Twitter Steven Waldren sheds some very interesting and insightful perspectives: Steven’s quotes gets to...
The IRS audits about 1.5% of all tax returns that are filed. Looked at another way, there is a 98.5% chance that the IRS will not audit your return. Yet even with this very low percentage of people that get audited, most people are very frightened that they will be one of the unlucky individuals....
To be successfully in any business you need a few basic elements. Two of the elements include; customers that value your service and are willing to purchase your services. Secondly, you also need to eliminate or reduce liabilities that can damage or hurt your business. Implementing HIPAA security can help your business The first element...
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