February 5, 2017 HIPAA Audit Control Requirements Highlight to CEs by OCR In recent weeks, a number of HIPAA-covered entities have revealed that employees have been found to have [...]
February 4, 2017 New HIPAA Guidance Released for 2017 At HIMSS17, OCR’s Deven McGraw revealed some details regarding the HIPAA guidance OCR expects to publish [...]
January 30, 2017 Final Rule on Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records Issued by HHS In February 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed change to the [...]
January 20, 2017 MongoDB Databases Warning for Healthcare Organizations In the last fortnight the number of organizations that have had their MongoDB databases logged onto, copied, [...]
January 15, 2017 Hotmail HIPAA Compliant Many healthcare groups do not know if the Hotmail email service is HIPAA compliant and whether sending [...]
January 12, 2017 Association Health Plans & HIPAA Compliance In October 2017, President Trump published Executive Order 13813 – “Promoting Healthcare Choice and [...]
January 10, 2017 What are the HIPAA Violation Penalties? Penalties for HIPAA breaches can be applied by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for [...]
January 7, 2017 Muddy Waters’ Claims that St. Jude Medical Devices Can be Hacked Confirmed by FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a safety communication Tuesday about cybersecurity [...]
January 5, 2017 Security Weakness Created by Security Cameras Security and surveillance camera security weaknesses may potentially be exploited by hackers to gain access [...]
January 3, 2017 Dentists and HIPAA Awareness The problem of HIPAA compliance for dentists is not one that should be disregarded. Research carried out by [...]