We read about healthcare organizations that get fined by the OCR for basically doing nothing, meaning that they have a general lack of evidence of due diligence for HIPAA.
January 24, 2017
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We read about healthcare organizations that get fined by the OCR for basically doing nothing, meaning that they have a general lack of evidence of due diligence for HIPAA.
Reviewing some of the largest fines can help healthcare organizations learn how to avoid them should an incident occur. Many experts say that it isn’t IF an incident will occur, it’s WHEN.
ComplyAssistant kicked off its summer webinar series on June 22, 2016 with guest speaker Helen Oscislawski, founder of the Attorneys at Oscislawski (aka Oscislawski LLC).
Healthcare seems to be the #1 target for hackers and ransomware and there are two (2) main reasons that make up the root cause.
A concern in security risk assessment is ongoing PHI breaches. A proper HIPAA risk assessment tool such as PHI Vulnerability Assessment can help.
The Omnibus Rule outlines significant changes to the relationships between covered entities and business associates, leading to a variety of compliance and vendor management challenges. This webinar provides attendees with an understanding of what has changed for business associates with the Omnibus Rule, and discusses how it changes the relationship between provider and vendor.
(Journal of Healthcare Information Management – (JHIM) – Fall 2011 – Used by permission from HIMSS) A question that we have been asked by a number of our clients over the past six (6) months is: “What do we really need to do for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1 in regards to information security risk analysis?”