Even an ‘Internal Breach’ is a Breach According to an announcement on its website, Alabama-based DCH Health Systems fired an employee for accessing...
HIPAA Audit
Former Hospital Employees Accused of Selling Patient Information Five former employees of Methodist Hospital in Memphis, TN, including a recently-licensed...
HIPAA Risk Assessments have become a standard in healthcare. However, not everyone is doing a proper HIPAA Risk Assessment that would hold up to a HIPAA audit...
Healthcare IT and EHR security is a really important topic right now. Many organizations have started to spend time and resources on this problem after a...
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule compliance date is on Monday. Are you ready? I’m sure the answer for most organizations is NO! In fact, the real question that I...
Guest Poster: John Brewer is the founder of HIPAAaudit.com. He and his team help physicians run HIPAA Compliant practices in the simplest, most pain free way...
Guest Poster: John Brewer is the founder of HIPAAaudit.com. He and his team help physicians run HIPAA Compliant practices in the simplest, most pain free way...
John’s Note: One of the requests I got in the recent survey I did was to cover more details of HIPAA. So, I’m glad to have John Brewer (yes...
John’s Note: Much of this post will be child’s play for those of you reading the blog that are steeped in meaningful use, the HITECH act, EHR...
Anyone that has worked in healthcare has the palpable fear of the word HIPAA. Any time the word’s mentioned, I have this visceral emotion shoot threw my...