July 9, 2017 HIPAA Covered Entities Covered entities under HIPAA are individuals or groups that send protected health information for [...]
July 4, 2017 Do You Need a HIPAA Compliant SFTP Server? If FTP is needed to send transfer protected health information, healthcare suppliers, health plans, [...]
June 29, 2017 Anthem Agree World’s Biggest Data Breach Settlement The biggest data breach settlement ever recorded has recently been agreed by the health insurer Anthem Inc. [...]
June 16, 2017 When was HIPAA Passed? HIPAA was passed on August 21, 1996 when it was signed into law by the President of the United States, Bill [...]
June 12, 2017 OCR Warns Covered Groups of Security Incident Definition and Alerts Requirements The ransomware campaigns and healthcare IT security incidents last month have lead to the Department of [...]
June 10, 2017 Is Microsoft Office 365 HIPAA Compliant? Microsoft will agree to completing a business associate agreement (BAA) with HIPAA covered bodies for Office [...]
June 8, 2017 Google Docs & HIPAA Compliance In order for Google Docs to be considered HIPAA compliant, stored data must be encrypted. Data must also be [...]
June 5, 2017 HIPAA Compliance Plan The administrative obligations within the HIPAA Security Rule are quite clear about who is charged with [...]
June 5, 2017 HIPAA Administrative Simplification Regulations The HIPAA Administrative Simplification Regulations – listed in 45 CFR Part 160, Part 162, and Part 164 – [...]
May 16, 2017 What HIPAA ‘Protected Health Information’? If you are employed in the healthcare sector or are thinking about doing business with healthcare clients [...]