With HIPAA compliance audits slated to resume within about a year, what steps can healthcare organizations take to begin to prepare? OCR's Leon Rodriguez offers strategies based on initial audit findings and breach investigations.
HIPAA security and privacy requirements are nothing new to healthcare - they have been part of doing business for years now. But the HITECH act, introduced in 2009, significantly raised the stakes. Learn about 9 solutions that can prepare you before any HIPAA audit occurs - without impacting your end users.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that approximately 150 onsite audits will take place throughout 2012, making this a busy year for IT security professionals in the healthcare industry.
Everyone is at risk of being audited so read through this ebook for tips on preparing for your...
Healthcare data is generated by numerous systems and in a wide variety of formats. Add to this an ever changing IT vendor technology landscape and it's no surprise that most healthcare applications do not conform to a single data format. With so many unique formats to contend with, managing this data and deriving...
The passage of the HITECH Act and adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are creating unprecedented amounts of digital health information. While EHRs offer many advantages for patients and providers, they also generate risks that must be managed effectively. A new survey of more than 500 healthcare executives...
If your organization is planning to adopt Meaningful Use to gain Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payouts, avoid penalties, or build a stronger security position, you probably have questions about how to meet the measure.
This white paper helps you understand what Meaningful Use means to your organization, and...
For Healthcare providers, archiving electronic content is a critical best practice that every organization should follow. It not only assures that you meet your legal obligations to retain patient and client information, it is necessary to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Surprisingly, some organizations...
Email is the single most important tool in helping employees get work done in organizations of all types, including Healthcare providers and others entities subject to HIPAA requirements. That's why outages of even a few minutes in length can create numerous problems for individual email users and organizations that...
Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...
Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...
The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...
Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...
Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends:
Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...
Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...
Maintaining the security of patient data is a complex proposition that affects every employee of a healthcare facility, every area of its IT system, and all vendors, partners, and insurers that work with the healthcare provider.
While many facilities are working toward achieving full compliance with HIPAA,...
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