With the compliance deadline looming, healthcare organizations of all sizes are scrambling to understand their obligations under the final HIPAA Omnibus Rule. The omnibus package substantially modifies the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules. Plus, it spells out new guidelines for assessing whether a...
Privacy and security leaders, including John Houston at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, are evaluating the changes needed to comply with the HIPAA omnibus final rule. Find out what's on their to-do lists.
As the National Institutes of Health ramps up research projects involving human genomes, electronic health records and other sensitive data, it's exploring the best ways to protect that data, says research director Eric Green, M.D., PhD.
The new omnibus rule makes it clear that business associates must comply with HIPAA. And the latest additions to the federal health data breach tally put a spotlight on why some BAs need to improve patient data protection.
New guidance on when to notify authorities of a breach is one of the most significant provisions in the HIPAA omnibus final rule, experts say. Find out what other provisions are drawing attention.
The long overdue final HIPAA omnibus rule has been released. The package includes extensive modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules as well as an updated version of the HIPAA breach notification rule.
While a privacy advocate is demanding federal guidance on protecting health data in the cloud, one federal official says pending HIPAA modifications will help ensure patient data is safeguarded.
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.
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...
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...
When private medical records are breached, healthcare service providers suffer damage to their brand, reputation, loss of trust from their patients, and severe financial repercussions. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandates that appropriate administrative, technical, and...
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