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On September 2, 2015 The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing a $750,000 HIPAA settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C. This large fine offers some very important lessons. Let’s take a closer look: Cancer Care Group is a mid-size practice. They have 18 physicians. It is important to note the...
We are all well aware of the epidemic of large data breaches that have been occurring recently. Anthem, Blue Cross, UCLA, the list goes on and on. Over 143 million records breached to date – an astounding figure! Since 2009, when the Office of Civil Rights “Wall of Shame” came into existence, there have been...
Art Gross, President and CEO of HIPAA Secure Now!, participated in an American Osteopathic Association (AOA) webinar on 2015 HIPAA Audits and How to Avoid HIPAA Related Breaches. The recorded webinar is below.
There are a large number of potential attack vectors on any network. Medical devices on a healthcare network is certainly one of them. While medical devices represent a potential threat, it is important to keep in mind that the threat level posed by any given medical device should be determined by a Security Risk Assessment...
Now that the 2015 HIPAA Audits have begun, organizations are reevaluating their HIPAA compliance posture. This is a good thing being that an organization will have very little time to respond to pre-audit and audit inquiries from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). On the other hand, some organizations are evaluating the risk of being...
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...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has just released a valuable resource called: Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information Here is a look at the information included in the guide: [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Understand a HIPAA / Meaningful Use Risk Assessment Organizations need to perform a Risk Assessment...
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...
On a blog post over at the CMS website, it has been announced that CMS will shorten the Meaningful Use 2015 reporting period to 90 day. Currently the 2015 reporting period is 365 days. Today, we at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are pleased to announce our intent to engage in rulemaking...
An article over at Physicians Practice gives some useful tips to avoid HIPAA fines. 1) Conduct or update your security risk assessment required by the security rules – A security risk assessment is the core of the HIPAA security rule 2) Implement the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required by the HIPAA security rule –...
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