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HIPAA Secure Now! Ramps up EHR Partner Program, Helps Healthcare Providers Achieve Meaningful Use under Revised CMS Deadlines

Aug 21, 2014

Morristown, NJw (PRWEB) August 21, 2014 HIPAA Secure Now! rolled out its EHR (electronic health records) partnership program, making it possible for EHR vendors to now offer their customers a HIPAA security risk assessment, a vital requirement for achieving meaningful use. HIPAA Secure Now! provides risk analysis services, policies, procedures and training to medical practices...

Hacker’s advice: How to create stronger passwords

Aug 18, 2014

There is an insightful article over at WonderHowTo written by an IT security professional and forensic investigator. The article looks at ways to prevent hackers from accessing important information online. Specifically the article focuses on how to create strong passwords that will reduce the likeliness that your account will be hacked. All passwords can be...

HIPAA and the Cloud: How to Securely Store and Share Patient Files with Dropbox

Aug 14, 2014

The following is a guest post by Asaf Cidon, CEO and co-founder of Sookasa Healthcare providers across the country are quickly learning how useful cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive can be. These services allow practitioners to store documents in the cloud, share them with other users, and automatically synchronize the latest...

Legal Pitfalls of Electronic Patient Communication

Aug 10, 2014

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Physicians Practice. July 28, 2014 | Law & Malpractice, Mobile, Patient Relations, Risk Management By Shelly K. Schwartz Patients prefer it. Medicare’s meaningful use program requires it. And within a few years, health information technology analysts predict that electronic communication will be par for the...

OCR: shred, burn or pulverize PHI before disposing!

Aug 7, 2014

The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has a frequently asked questions document (PDF) on the disposal of protected health information (PHI). Below are some of the highlights of the guidance: What do the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules require of covered entities when they dispose of protected health...

AMA advises members to perform a security risk assessment

Jul 25, 2014

Hot off the American Medical Association (AMA) Wire, a service that provides news and information to AMA members, is a reminder that the HIPAA audits will resume this year. The AMA Wire reminds members that the HIPAA audits will start as early as this summer If you haven’t conducted a privacy and security risk assessment...

Good infographic on the need to implement secure communications to protect patient information

Jul 23, 2014

Good infographic on the need to implement secure communications to protect patient information Original infographic can be found at TheConnectedClinician.com [divider_line] [divider_line]

Case study: Breach of PHI by a Business Associate

Jul 12, 2014

One of our medical practice clients contacted us regarding a breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) by their billing company. The client received a letter from the billing company’s attorney stating that 60 of the client’s patients had their information breached when the billing company’s file server was compromised. The PHI included treatment reports, name,...

Criminals Have Their Eyes on Your Patients’ Records

Jul 2, 2014

The post appeared on June 26, 2014 in EMR & HIPAA It’s one thing to have a laptop stolen with 8,000 patient records or for a disgruntled doctor to grab his patients’ records and start his own practice. It’s another when the Cosa Nostra steals that information, siphons money from the patient’s bank account and...

Don’t comply with HIPAA!

Jun 26, 2014

Here is a quote from one of our IT partners: My client got physically upset at me when I brought up the topic of HIPAA. They didn’t want to discuss it and said it was just another government regulation and they just want to practice medicine. While I was shocked to hear someone actually say...

HIPAA Secure Now! Ramps up EHR Partner Program, Helps Healthcare Providers Achieve Meaningful Use under Revised CMS Deadlines

Hacker’s advice: How to create stronger passwords

HIPAA and the Cloud: How to Securely Store and Share Patient Files with Dropbox

Legal Pitfalls of Electronic Patient Communication

OCR: shred, burn or pulverize PHI before disposing!

AMA advises members to perform a security risk assessment

Good infographic on the need to implement secure communications to protect patient information

Case study: Breach of PHI by a Business Associate

Criminals Have Their Eyes on Your Patients’ Records

Don’t comply with HIPAA!

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