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....
The news on patient information breaches gets stranger every day. In an article over at Pensacola News Journal (pnj.com), 2 ex-employees are being sued for stealing patient information. Sight and Sun Eyeworks Gulf Breeze are suing a former physician and office manager for stealing patient information and trying to switch patients to the new practice...
Back in April we wrote about gang members who are getting their girlfriends hired at medical practices. The gang member’s girlfriends are stealing medical records and giving it to their boyfriends to file false tax returns. Detective Craig Catlin of the North Miami Beach Police Department Gang Unit goes so far as to call it an...
We wrote about the risks of Business Associates (BAs) to patient information. The reality is many Business Associates have no idea of the requirements of HIPAA or the real risks to patient information. And even though all Business Associates will be responsible for complying with the HIPAA Security and Omnibus rules come September that may...
Click below to watch a short video on our free HIPAA security training! Clients love our HIPAA security training! We keep hearing that their employees find the training to be valuable and some even say it is fun (or as fun as HIPAA security training can be). We keep working to make the training engaging...
Risk of owning a car If you take a step back and think of the risks of owning a car I think you would be shocked. Cars have associated risks that could significantly impact you and your family. Some of the risks include: The risk of being hurt or killed in a car accident The...
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