Publication: Dermatology Times Criminals are after your patients’ medical records, plain and simple. The number of criminal cyberattacks reported by healthcare organizations jumped to 40% in 2013 from 20% in 2009, according to an annual survey by the Ponemon Institute. Whether it’s an ex-employee with a grudge, a crime ring defrauding the government, or a...

Publication: Medical Practice Insider Small and midsize physician practices confronted challenges seemingly from every direction during 2014. Doctors and industry observers voiced their views on the realities of contemporary practice in these memorable quotes from Medical Practice Insider’s coverage of the year just concluded.

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Publication: Dermatology Times 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 Civil Rights (OCR) ordering an investigation related to a patient data breach – not his own.

Publication: 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 from a staff member’s car. Not only did the dermatology group owe the hefty sum, it joined the ranks of...

Publication: Dermatology Times The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulls no punches when it warns healthcare providers that meaningful use audits are happening, at random, and consequences for failing the audit are costly. If a provider cannot produce documentation that fully supports its electronic health record (EHR) attestation, the CMS could recoup incentive...

Publication: Medical Practice Insider So you’ve taken all the steps to align your practice with HIPAA mandates — you’ve conducted a risk assessment, you keep regular tabs on your encryption functionality and you’ve memorized your breach disaster plan by heart.You’re ready; the problem is, your business associates may not be.

Publication: InformationWeek A Saturday night phone call gave no indication it heralded months of bureaucracy, finger pointing, expense — and the dismal realization that even the smallest healthcare provider is liable and harmed when a business associate suffers a HIPAA breach.

Publication: EMR & HIPAA Ask any medical professional about their biggest concern for protecting patient information and they will probably tell you about the threat of a random audit conducted by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). OCR is tasked with enforcing HIPAA regulations and has the ability to hand out fines up to $1.5...

Publication: Medical Practice Insider Try as they may, small practices are having a hard time running HIPAA’s gamut between compliance and security.Of course, when the source material is so dense and with technical support hard to come by, who could blame them? Certainly not Art Gross.