Compliance Tips
Data Breach Litigation: What You Need to Know
As sensitive data breaches become increasingly commonplace, many individuals are seeking to hold breached organizations responsible for the violation of their privacy. As a result, class- action lawsuits have emerged as a popular trend in the world of data breach litigation. With the rapid increase in this type of legal action, healthcare organizations must take measures to prevent data breaches. The first step to prevention is understanding why class-action lawsuits are on the rise as a response to data breaches.
Building Your Medical Device Cybersecurity Protocol
Medical device cybersecurity has become significantly more important in the age of digital health. There are essential actions health systems must take to protect themselves – and their patients. This blog offers 5 guidelines to evaluate and maintain your medical device cybersecurity.
From 300 to 36: Reducing Hurdles in Business Associate Assessments
Business associate assessments are notoriously burdensome and time consuming for both covered entity and the business associate (BA). But the typical 300-question survey can be significantly narrowed by focusing on the most critical and problematic issues.
HIPAA and Social Media – The Need for Policies and Training
Healthcare organizations and their third party vendors have an obligation to the federal government and their patients to abide by the HIPAA regulations. Unfortunately the very foundation of social media opposes everything in relation to the privacy, security, and confidentiality of information. Social media allows for anyone to see your organizations information, at any time, in any part of the world.
Why Empowering the CISO is Important for Healthcare Information Security Risk Management
We are starting to see Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) reporting outside of Information Technology (IT). This makes sense because the CISO needs to be able to audit the IT controls and give an unbiased report to senior management.
HIPAA-HITECH Security – Why Pay for “Nothing”?
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.
How to avoid HIPAA penalties based on some of the largest!
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.
PHI Breaches – Have You Conducted Your PHI Vulnerability Assessment?
A concern in security risk assessment is ongoing PHI breaches. A proper HIPAA risk assessment tool such as PHI Vulnerability Assessment can help.
Meaningful Use Stage 1 – Information Security Risk Analysis Scope
(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?”