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We have a client who does not want to pay for an expensive HIPAA compliant web form hosting service. They are insisting that utilizing WPForms or something similar on their Wordpress site and sending the submitted data in email, as long as… Continue reading Question about HIPAA compliance webforms sent in email
A healthcare organization’s data is complex, high-volume and in need of strong security protocols to comply with HIPAA. Managing healthcare data can be an incredibly difficult process without the right best practices. In this guide, we’ll tell you how … Continue reading Healthcare data migration: Best practices and standards
In this interview for Help Net Security, Troy Fine, Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Risk Management at Drata, talks about the challenges of data compliance and what companies must do to achieve it. Compliance has been an important factor for all busine… Continue reading Busting compliance myths
This article gives a detailed introduction to data quality and the current status it has in healthcare.
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Consumer data compliance and privacy are growing in importance. Learn how to automate compliance efforts here.
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There is an enforcement update to an incident noted on this site in 2018. The incident that involved New England Dermatology P.C., d/b/a New England Dermatology and Laser Center (“NDELC”) was summarized by HHS in their resolution agreement and correcti… Continue reading OCR Settles Case Involving Decade-Long Improper Disposal of Protected Health Information
A DataBreaches opinion piece. You might think a giant insurer like Anthem, which has experienced at least several breaches over the years — including one of the most significant breaches ever — would understand the importance of transparenc… Continue reading Transparency #FAIL: Why won’t Anthem/Elevance Health answer a simple question about breaches?
Theresa Defino reports: Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs). And, if Congress agrees, its… Continue reading OCR: Current Fines Too Low to Spur Compliance; Agency Also Seeks Funding Boost, Injunctive Relief
How should organizations in the healthcare sector respond to outage due to a serious cyberattack? The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) has released a tactical checklist aimed at h… Continue reading A checklist to help healthcare organizations respond to a serious cyberattack
Chris Bennington of Epstein Becker Green writes, in part: The HITECH Act requires OCR to issue annual reports to Congress of HIPAA breaches and complaints received by OCR during the calendar year. For 2020, OCR reported that it received 656 notificatio… Continue reading HHS OCR Issues Annual HIPAA Reports to Congress