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Breach Response: Reputational Risk
For most health care practitioners their reputation are everything. All the hard work and diligence treating patients to build up good will and earn a solid reputation can be damaged by a data breach...
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Exposure Disclosure Liability and Accountability
Some very sound advice here. HITECH has put some bite in HIPAA and to ignore your responsibilities is to tempt fate. With the number of random audits by CMS increasing next year and thereafter and...
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Clinic Takes Bold Action on Privacy
This might be the most aggressive implementation of the Privacy Rule that I have heard of, but the reasons are clear and the employees were informed and trained prior to the inappropriate access. I...
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Do you have HIPAA Security and Privacy Exposure?
If any of these things rings a bell for you, then you ought to consider taking action and getting your risk assessment taken care of and begin the path to compliance. With the focus on Meaningful Use...
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ONC To Medical Practices: Get A Security Officer
This should be a surprise to no one and if your practice doesn’t have a Security-Privacy Officer….you would do well to get with the times. You also need to make sure that whoever the Security-Privacy...
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Alaska HIPAA Penalty: $1.7 Million
Just a reminder that government entities are not immune from HIPAA. The reasons for such a large fine are pretty simple, they didn’t follow the risk management process and train their employees, and...
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Five Tips to Make Patient Privacy Part of Your Organizational DNA
Some really sound advice here, particularly #’s 1 and 3. If you go through the 5 items and find yourself going “did we do this?” you know you need to get moving and take care of these issues before...
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Secure Texting In Healthcare – Ways to Keep Patient Information Private
This is an area that troubles most practices. Texting is so ubiquitous and pervasive today, it’s a matter of time until a HIPAA violation results from its use. If you are using texting at your...
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How a Breach Led to Change in Culture
I’ve always wondered way there was this artificial separation of privacy and security in healthcare organizations. Ostensibly it is likely due to the kind of thinking that IT is not really a fully...
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Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police
This is a novel approach by police, charging a man video taping a mental health intervention with a HIPAA violation! Obviously, the police can’t claim this as they are not healthcare providers, but...
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