Category Archives: HIPAA

FREE Webinar: Cyber and Privacy Risk CPR Insurance Framework

Tuesday, March 11th from 2:00 – 3:00 EST A Privacy Professional’s Expert Viewpoint – Benefits & Pitfalls Gain an understanding of how the proper CPR™ insurance can aide in funding potential data breach response expenses including notification costs, defense costs for regulatory actions, state and/or federal fines, crisis management costs, public relations costs, and other… Read More »

Leon Rodriguez Meme

A couple of weeks back we created this meme of Leon Rodriguez, we all need to have a little fun with HIPAA and even though he has left for his new position as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director at Homeland Security, we still wanted to share!

FREE Webinar- Where Security and Privacy Meet: Partnering Tips for CSO’s and Privacy/Compliance Leads

Tuesday, January 27th from 2:00 – 3:30 EST This webinar will identifying challenges in both the privacy and security offices, explaining the necessities of working together, and identify mutual goals, both within their departments and in the context of the rest of the business. It will include solutions and suggestions for working together and case studies/examples showing common mistakes as well… Read More »

Mitigating circumstances which surround Due Diligence and the HIPAA and HITECH Act

Significant liability potential as well as heightened enforcement surrounds one aspect of the healthcare industry.  Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health Act, a corporation may suffer extensive civil and criminal penalties if they violate or give out any person’s protected health… Read More »

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 »