How to Become HIPAA Compliant When working in healthcare, in any capacity, it is important to understand your obligation to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA law was created to apply to a variety of healthcare entities, including doctor’s offices, hospitals, HIPAA business associates (BAs), and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with healthcare… Read More »
HIPAA Manuals, Is it Enough? Remember Windows 95? That operating system was released by Microsoft roughly one year before HIPAA became the law of the land. In the mid 1990s, the Internet was in its infancy. “Social media” did not exist as we know it. Web commerce was a gleam in its creators’ eyes (the… Read More »
MSP HIPAA Compliance The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted in 1996 created industry standards for the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI). PHI is any individually identifying health information including patient names, IP addresses, device identifiers or serial numbers, and biometric identifiers, to name a few. The HIPAA law applies… Read More »
HIPAA Compliance Software The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted in 1996, set forth industry standards for the handling of protected health information (PHI). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines PHI as any individually identifiable health information, classified into 18 HIPAA identifiers. PHI can include name, date of birth, address,… Read More »
If you run a small or mid-size medical practice, you can be forgiven for not staying ahead of medical technology trends. It takes more than enough resources just to manage a business while delivering exceptional patient care. But there’s one process improvement that will save you boatloads of time and money in the long run–and… Read More »
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By now, you may have heard about the massive ransomware attack that has struck over 150 countries, including The United States, over the past week. If health care data taken hostage in a ransomware attack is unencrypted, it could constitute a HIPAA violation. Any electronic protected health information (ePHI) that is affected by a breach… Read More »
“With big data, comes big responsibility,” says Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Roger Severino. This is just a fragment of the insight he gave into upcoming HIPAA enforcement trends in his plenary talks at Health Datapalooza 2017. Severino, the newly appointed Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) OCR, spoke about… Read More »
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price spoke about the future of innovation in health care IT during his opening remarks at Health Datapalooza 2017. “People, patients, and partnerships” are going to be the driving forces behind the Trump Administration’s work in health care IT. Secretary Price commented on reducing the burden of… Read More »
Knowing who is a Business Associate can be difficult and confusing for Covered Entities. Through our surveys of the market BlogHIPAA has identified that most Covered Entities need help identifying their Business Associates, and do not understand how to confidently audit and determine if they are in compliance with HIPAA. We believe this webinar will… Read More »