Preparing to pass a spot audit conducted by your state department of health
Gerry Blass – ComplyAssistant President and CEO. Dana Penny – Chief Compliance Officer at The New Jewish Home in New
How to Protect Your Organization from the Next Phishing Scam
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever for hackers to take advantage of organizations online. Recent examples of this have come in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline attack and the Scripps Health EHR breach. The repercussions of both attacks—which include gasoline shortages up and down the east coast and disruption of EHR, website, and patient portal—are continuing to be felt long after the bad actors do their dirty work. So, what can organizations do to protect themselves?
The Evolution of Risk to PHI and Patient Safety
In the 70s and 80s, healthcare organizations started to migrate their patient management information from hard copy to electronic, either on shared mainframes such as SMS and McAuto or on microprocessors. The user workstations had no intelligence and were known as “dumb terminals.” There were limited locations of electronic identifiable health information. There was no motivation to sell identifiable health information.
ComplyAssistant’s Gerry Blass Volunteers as a 405(d) Task Group Brand Ambassador
ComplyAssistant Contact:Gerry Blass(800) 609-3414 ext 700gerry@complyassistant.com Colts Neck, N.J.—April 26, 2021 – Gerry Blass, President and CEO of ComplyAssistant, has
Information Blocking and the Future of Patient Care: Breaking Down the 8 Exceptions
President and CEO Gerry Blass sat down with Journal of AHIMA senior editor Mary Butler on a recent episode of the Hi Pitch Podcast to talk about the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Final Rule and the eight information blocking exceptions. Blass was joined by attorney Helen Oscislawski, who spoke to the challenges her clients have faced as they prepare to comply with the rule, which goes into effect on April 5th.
Breaking Down The Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP)
In this episode of Digital Checkup, Bill Siwicki asked Gerry Blass about the new Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) Final Rule.
The Annual Phishing Report looks at the latest trends in cybersecurity as well the top risks to watch out for. Learn about the key findings as well as advice from industry experts.
One year into the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, phishing attacks against healthcare organizations remain a chief concern. Threat actors are constantly
How AI Can Help with Contract Management
By Gerry Blass and Robert F. Porr, CHC Nearly half of healthcare executives polled in a 2019 Accenture study rank
Podcast: Making Sense of the Preventing Harm Exception
EPISODE SUMMARY As part of our series about the Information Blocking Final Rule, Helen Oscislawski, Esq., joins HI Pitch host
Briefings on HIPAA Article Shines Light on Need for Better Patient Access
A February 1 article published in Briefings on HIPAA focuses on recent findings from the Office for Civil Rights’ much-anticipated 2016-2017 HIPAA Audits Industry Report released in December 2020. The article shines light on some of the flaws and challenges in the way patient access to information has been handled over the years.
Different kind of virus: Hospitals, already strained by pandemic, find selves squarely in hackers’ crosshairs
Hackers are setting their sights on the healthcare industry this year for fraud schemes, phishing attacks and other cybersecurity threats.
