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September 23, 2013, the official date that HIPAA Omnibus regulations are enforced. One of the results of the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule is that it has raised awareness of HIPAA regulations. Existing covered entities (hospitals, physicians, dentists, chiropractors) and business associates (IT companies, medical billing, law firms, etc.) are scurrying around in efforts to be...
Here is a secret that compliance experts have known for a long time: It is very difficult to be 100% compliant with HIPAA regulations Of course, you have probably seen claims like these: Buy our product and we will make you HIPAA compliant Compliance in a box! Be HIPAA compliant in 30 days! Snake oil...
Chicago based Advocate Medical Group announced that a burglary at their administrative office has resulted in a breach of 4 million patient records. Immediately after discovering that four computers were stolen, that same day, the Park Ridge Police Department was notified. AMG then launched an investigation and discovered that while the computers did not contain...
Steve Thom wrote an interesting article called Trendjacking threats are a growing concern. Trendjacking is a refined phishing scam. Thom defines the term Trendjacking as: The term is “Trendjacking”, and it refers to spammers and malware authors using current trends to trick you into opening malicious email messages. Trendjacking scams are emails that come from...
When people think of HIPAA breaches a lot of times they think of hackers breaking into a network and stealing patient information. While that is a real concern, another cause of breaches should not be ignored. What is the other cause of breaches you should be concern with? Your employees. Employees cause HIPAA breaches. In...
HIPAA Omnibus Rule Enforcement Countdown [framed_box bgColor=”#d5d5d5″ textColor=”#BC1310″ rounded=”true”] HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule enforcement begins on September 23, 2013 [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”09/23/2013″] Eastern Standard Time [/framed_box] Are you ready? (Click on the links below for more information) Covered Entities Have you performed a Risk Assessment? Have you provided HIPAA security training for all employees? Do you...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has some great resources to help healthcare organizations ensure privacy and security of health information. Privacy & Security Training Games ONC has a very good privacy and security training game. The game gives real life scenarios and has the player make privacy and security...
Big HIPAA penalties and fines make great news headlines. Recently the managed care company WellPoint Inc. agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine to settle potential HIPAA violations. False sense of security Large fines make headlines and show that violating HIPAA regulations can be very expensive. Unfortunately it can have an opposite effect as well....
We have previously written about the risk of business associates (BAs) to patient information here and here. Now we have another large data breach caused by a hospital’s business associate. An article over at the Star Telegram goes into the details. A contractor for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth failed to destroy hundreds...
Recently we wrote about gang members stealing patient information and filing false tax returns and we wrote about meth dealers stealing patient information to obtain the materials to manufacture methamphetamine. Once again a there is a case where a hospital employee is accused of stealing patient information and selling it in exchange for crack cocaine....
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