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This article written by HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO, Art Gross, was published over at Dermatology Times. What happens if your business associate has a patient data breach? Here’s a cautionary tale: A medical practice comes to us in a panic. It turns out the physician had received a letter from the Office of...
HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO, Art Gross, offers some tips to avoid HIPAA related breaches in an article over at Dermatology Times Back in 2013 Adult & Pediatric Dermatology of Concord, Massachusetts, was hit with a $150,000 HIPAA fine for an unencrypted thumb drive that stored more than 2,200 patient records and was stolen...
Members of ASCII Group, longstanding IT channel organization voted HIPAA Secure Now! for award, signifying company’s commitment to peers and helping them grow their businesses. Morristown, NJ (PRWEB) November 17, 2014 HIPAA Secure Now! was voted one of the top 10 Esteemed Noble Partners by members of the ASCII Group, a membership-based community of independent...
A infographic by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reported that 71 percent of security breaches target small businesses, and nearly half of all small businesses have been victims of cyberattacks.
We talk about the cost of HIPAA related breaches for organizations but have you ever wondered how much it costs a victim of a HIPAA related breach? According to Becker’s Hospital Review, the average cost of a HIPAA related breach to an individual is about $19,000. According to a report by the Ponemon Institute, the...
According to FireceEMR, as of Nov 1, 2014 only 43,898 eligible professionals (EPs) have attested from Meaningful Use (MU). There are over 500,000 active registrants signed up to participate in the MU program. Furthermore, only 11,478 EPs have attested for MU Stage 2 as of Nov 1, 2014. The number of providers attesting to Meaningful...
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...
The following article, written by Alison Diana, appeared over at InformationWeek on 10/7/2014. The article interviews one of HIPAA Secure Now’s clients that utilized our service after one of their Business Associates had a HIPAA related breach. The client asked to remain anonymous but wanted to share the information so other HIPAA Covered Entities and...
An article over at eWEEK takes a look at the Community Health Systems’ (CHS) 4.5 million patient record breach. The message of the article is that the healthcare industry spends the least on protecting data and is the most susceptible to data breaches. Some highlights of the article include: The health care industry has given...
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...
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