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.
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...
2012 is looking to be a busy year for IT Security professionals in the Healthcare industry. The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that approximately 150 onsite audits will take place throughout the year.
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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...
A former employee of Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the United States, posted confidential information about 140 patients on her blog. Stories of damaging security breaches resulting from intentional or inadvertent exposure of outbound content are all too familiar. They can result in breaches that risk your...
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...
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