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With the start of a new year, many organizations take a second look at their business and make necessary changes. 2015 is looking like a challenging year in terms of data security. The New Year brings back the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA audits. Both HIPAA Covered Entities (CEs) and Business Associates (BAs) will...
According to the Herald-Tribune, a registered nurse working in the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room was fired and arrest for using patients’ credit card information. While investigating separate fraudulent credit card cases, detectives determined the victims’ information had been stolen while receiving treatment at the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room, according to the...
This article written by HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO, Art Gross, was published over at Dermatology Times. What happens if your business associate has a patient data breach? Here’s a cautionary tale: A medical practice comes to us in a panic. It turns out the physician had received a letter from the Office of...
HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO, Art Gross, offers some tips to avoid HIPAA related breaches in an article over at Dermatology Times Back in 2013 Adult & Pediatric Dermatology of Concord, Massachusetts, was hit with a $150,000 HIPAA fine for an unencrypted thumb drive that stored more than 2,200 patient records and was stolen...
We talk about the cost of HIPAA related breaches for organizations but have you ever wondered how much it costs a victim of a HIPAA related breach? According to Becker’s Hospital Review, the average cost of a HIPAA related breach to an individual is about $19,000. According to a report by the Ponemon Institute, the...
Good video on how hackers gain access to valuable data. Steps on how to protect your organization are discussed as well. Share with employees and colleagues [divider] [framed_box bgColor=”#ffd390″] Free HIPAA Security Training! All Covered Entities and Business Associates need to train their employees on HIPAA security. We now offer free online HIPAA security training...
The following article, written by Alison Diana, appeared over at InformationWeek on 10/7/2014. The article interviews one of HIPAA Secure Now’s clients that utilized our service after one of their Business Associates had a HIPAA related breach. The client asked to remain anonymous but wanted to share the information so other HIPAA Covered Entities and...
A prospective client asked for our help after receiving a HIPAA audit letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). OCR sent the client the letter after one of the client’s business associates experienced a HIPAA related breach. I won’t give any additional information on the client, the business associate or details of the security...
The following is a guest post by Asaf Cidon, CEO and co-founder of Sookasa Healthcare providers across the country are quickly learning how useful cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive can be. These services allow practitioners to store documents in the cloud, share them with other users, and automatically synchronize the latest...
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Physicians Practice. July 28, 2014 | Law & Malpractice, Mobile, Patient Relations, Risk Management By Shelly K. Schwartz Patients prefer it. Medicare’s meaningful use program requires it. And within a few years, health information technology analysts predict that electronic communication will be par for the...
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