Five Questions to Ask Your Business Associates: #3 Policies & Technologies
Our third most important question to a Business Associate is: What policies and technologies are used to protect my applications and PHI data? Neither HIPAA nor HITECH call for specific technical...
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Upcoming Webinar: Applying OCR Audit Standards to HIPAA Risk Assessments
Join David Barton, Principal UHY Advisors, as he discusses the new OCR Audit Protocols and explains appropriate application for risk assessment against the standards and safeguards of the the HIPAA...
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HIPAA in a HITECH World: HIPAA Violations on the Rise, According to Director...
Leon Rodriguez, Director Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shared unexpected insights from early analysis of breach statistics and the audit pilot at the American...
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Get Ready for HIPAA Audits with Encryption & A Risk Analysis
Remember the pilot HIPAA audit program conducted by the OCR (Office for Civil Rights) last year? HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reports on the findings, as revealed in an interview with an OCR attorney....
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Solving the Encryption Dilemna
Everybody’s screaming for protection of their personal information – thank you Edward Snowden. But the latest outcry, presumably prompting Google’s announcement last week that they are now defaulting...
View ArticleIs your organization HIPAA-ready for 2012?
How close are you to being completely HIPAA-ready for 2012? Back in August, I blogged about the upcoming 2011 HIPAA Violations and Audits, and news of the government’s $9.2 million contract with...
View ArticleBusiness Associates: Why Invest in a HIPAA Audit?
Could budgeting for an independent HIPAA audit be well worth the investment for business associates? In the event of a HIPAA violation, the numbers for federal penalties, legal and security fees and...
View ArticleFive Questions to Ask Your Business Associate: Question #2 HIPAA Audits
Following up from last week’s question #1, the second most important question to ask a Business Associate is: Who performed your independent HIPAA audit and do you provide copies of the audit report?...
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