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HIPAA Disclosure Documentation

Prior to the establishment of HIPAA Policies and Procedures, no federal regulations existed that required any type of tracking system to account for the release of information.  Now, however, based on the HIPAA privacy rule, as explained in the Omnibus final rule, covered entities must track protected health information that has been disclosed.  This was… Read More »

HIPAA, Security, and the Mobile Device

With the inclusion of Biometrics to the IPHONE 5, as seen in this article, http://secureidnews.com/news-item/analysis-biometrics-and-the-iphone/, there are many pros and cons that will affect how to be hipaa compliant. Awesome that you can use your own identification to open you mobile device but it also comes with organizations and individuals who think this is not… Read More »