The Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a $4.3 million fine to Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, MD (Cignet) for violating the Privacy Rule of HIPAA. Cignet refused to provide 41 patients with access to their medical records. Under HIPAA, patients are entitled to have access to their medical...
According the Health Data Management magazine, The HHS Office for Civil Rights plans big changes to privacy and security regulations. Below are some sections from their article. Adam Greene, senior health IT and privacy advisor in the OCR, outlined a slew of changes to existing regulations. The final HITECH privacy, security and breach notification rules...
There are countless security products on the market today. You can buy products from hardware firewalls, to anti-virus / anti-malware, to web content management, to email encryption, to log management platforms, the list goes on and on. All of these products have a place and help in protecting data and electronic protected health information (ePHI)....
One of the administrative requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule is to implement a security awareness and training program. And one of the implementation specifics is to implement security reminders. (5)(i) Standard: Security awareness and training. Implement a security awareness and training program for all members of its workforce (including management). (ii) Implementation specifications. Implement:...
A Risk Assessment is required in order to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule. The Security Management Process standard in the Security Rule requires organizations to “[i]mplement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations.” (45 C.F.R. § 164.308(a)(1).) Risk analysis is one of four required implementation specifications that provide instructions to...
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