HIPAA Security Tips and Reminders – Disasters
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How risk assessments lower the risk to patient data
One of the most important aspects of complying with the HIPAA Security Rule is to perform a risk assessment to evaluate how an organization is protecting patient data. The results of the risk assessment provide a playbook for how additional protections can lower the risk to patient information. Let’s take a closer look at the...
Lesson from the KPMG data breach
In a very embarrassing and ironic turn of events, KPMG announced that they had a data breach that involved 4,500 patient records. KPMG has been selected by The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to perform HIPAA compliance audits. So it appears that the company that will do HIPAA audits has experienced a HIPAA related data...
Details of the HIPAA audits
Health Info Security has published the transcript from an interview with Susan McAndrew of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. The article is very good and should be read in its entirety. Below are some of the key points. When asked if business associates as well as covered entities will...
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