May 12, 2017 Who Polices HIPAA? The main enforcer of HIPAA Rules is the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights [...]
May 9, 2017 2013 HIPAA Changes The 2013 HIPAA changes extended the range and extent of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability [...]
May 7, 2017 Texting & HIPAA Legislation There is a fair amount of confusion regarding HIPAA laws and texting. Some IT professionals believe that [...]
May 3, 2017 RDP Server and HIPAA Compliance A HIPAA compliant RDP server permits healthcare workers to work remotely and still have access to the same [...]
April 15, 2017 Explanation of HIPAA First proposed in 1996 in order that workers bring carry forward insurance and healthcare rights between [...]
April 15, 2017 Statistics on Healthcare Data Breaches We have put together healthcare data violation statistics from October 2009 when the Department of Health and [...]
April 11, 2017 Hospitals & Secure Text Messaging Secure text messaging in hospitals is a cost-effective method for healthcare groups to adhere with the Health [...]
April 10, 2017 Getting Ready for a HIPAA Compliance Audit In 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put in place an audit [...]
April 10, 2017 Regulations for HIPAA Compliance The most recent version of the HIPAA compliance regulations were passed with the Final Omnibus Rule of 2013. [...]
March 21, 2017 When do you Need to Advise the OCR of a Data Breach? Not all data breaches are HIPAA breaches and not all HIPAA breaches include data breaches. So, when should [...]