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If you look around you will see the overwhelming amount of mobile devices that are in use today including laptops, smartphones and tablets. Many organizations allow employees to use their own smartphones or laptops to access the organization’s email, network and data. Clients are starting to understand the risk of these devices and many have asked...
Interesting Infographic on healthcare professionals’ knowledge of HIPAA regulations from NueMD [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Free HIPAA Security Training! All Covered Entities and Business Associates need to train their employees on HIPAA security. We now offer free online HIPAA security training for Covered Entities and Business Associates. Find out more about our free training and send...
An article over at CIO compares health records to credit cards and unfortunately they come to a gloomy conclusion: Health records are worth more and easier to get The value of health records “Cyber criminals are now going after health care records because they hold up to ten times more value on the black market...
After performing over 1,000 HIPAA Security Risk Assessments, you can imagine that we have heard some ridiculous statements concerning HIPAA. There is a LOT of misinformation about HIPAA. Here are the Top 10 ridiculous overheard HIPAA statements: 10) My IT company won’t sign the Business Associate Agreement because they said it is not valid unless...
The column Dear Abby gives advice to a wife who illegally accessed her husband’s medical records. Read the whole article here. DEAR CONCERNED: Unless you claim to be clairvoyant, I don’t see how you can discuss this without admitting you accessed his medical records, which is against the law. Be prepared for him to be...
The following is a guest post by James Hinton In 1854 John Snow had a moment. At the time it hadn’t seemed like that significant an event, but Dr. Snow’s use of collected data and maps to pinpoint the source of a cholera outbreak in London started something. Though it started small, Big Data and Geographic...
The below infographic gives some frightening facts about healthcare related breaches. Click on the image to see the whole infographic Source: Datamotion [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Free HIPAA Security Training! All Covered Entities and Business Associates need to train their employees on HIPAA security. We now offer free online HIPAA security training for Covered Entities and...
With the start of a new year, many organizations take a second look at their business and make necessary changes. 2015 is looking like a challenging year in terms of data security. The New Year brings back the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA audits. Both HIPAA Covered Entities (CEs) and Business Associates (BAs) will...
According to the Herald-Tribune, a registered nurse working in the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room was fired and arrest for using patients’ credit card information. While investigating separate fraudulent credit card cases, detectives determined the victims’ information had been stolen while receiving treatment at the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room, according to the...
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