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 [...]
March 19, 2017 Preventing HIPAA Violations Using Employees Healthcare groups and their business associates must comply with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach [...]
March 14, 2017 HIPAA Compliance Comparison and PCI For groups in healthcare-related sectors, who both have access to PHI and allow credit card payments, a PCI [...]
March 9, 2017 Privacy Guidelines for HIPAA The HIPAA privacy guidelines were first published in 2002 with the aim of safeguarding the patient [...]
March 4, 2017 Complying with HITECH Companies in the healthcare sector (“Covered Entities”) should already be aware of their HITECH [...]
March 1, 2017 Google Calendar & HIPAA Compliant Google Calendar was released in 2006 and is part of Google’s G Suite of products and services. Google [...]