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Data breaches are happening on a frequent basis. You can’t read the news or watch TV without hearing about another data breach. While a company may give out some details of a data breach, the financial details of what the data breach will cost a company usually are not disclosed. This is especially true with...
Back in March, we reported that OCR had announced its Phase 2 Audit Program. When we last heard from OCR about Phase 2 HIPAA Audits, we saw that emails were being sent to Covered Entities and Business Associates. The purpose of the emails was to verify and expand the OCR HIPAA audit pool. We wrote...
HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO writes an article for Physicians Practice called: Don’t Let HIPAA Audits, Ransomware Sink Your Practice At the same time medical practices are faced with the increased likelihood of a HIPAA audit, hackers hover around waiting to steal patients’ personal data and/or hold it hostage through ransomware scams. These practices...
A recent article over at Becker’s Spine Review, discusses some of the “low hanging fruit of HIPAA compliance”. They give 8 best practices for being HIPAA compliant. For the article they interviewed David Holtzman, JD, CIPP, vice president of compliance strategies, Cynergistek and Aaron Tantleff, partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Encrypt health information. The...
Tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored programming and Bloomberg International on Sunday, June 26, 2016. See market-by-market listings below. Los Angeles, CA – June 23, 2016 — Secure Now! President/CEO Art Gross will soon appear on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. Gross will share his expertise in the small and mid-sized business...
Tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored programming and Bloomberg International on Sunday, June 26, 2016. See market-by-market listings below. Los Angeles, CA – June 23, 2016 — Secure Now! President/CEO Art Gross will soon appear on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. Gross will share his expertise in the small and mid-sized business...
By now we are all aware of the horrible event that took place in Orlando over the weekend. Mass casualties caused local hospitals and ERs to respond heroically. One of the tasks required during these operations was the necessity to communicate patient status with family and loved ones. Unfortunately, this was not handled very well....
On April 27, CMS came out with a proposed rule on how physicians will get paid under MACRA (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act). If you want to read the whole 962 page snoozefest, you can find it here (PDF). But sleep or not, this regulation changes the fundamental Fee-For-Service (FFS) system that CMS...
If you go back in time, to 2004, and look at Facebook it looks a lot different than it does today. The same can be said for applications like Microsoft Word or Excel. As these services or products mature they evolve – offering improved functionality, performance, stability and features. New HSN HIPAA Training Like Facebook...
The topic of ransomware, especially ransomware hitting healthcare organizations, is making headlines daily. Dan Munro has a very good article over at Forbes that asks an important question: Is Ransomware Considered A Health Data Breach Under HIPAA? David Harlow, Principal – The Harlow Group, LLC, whose insight into HIPAA law I respect greatly, states: Ransomware...
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