Safe Harbor for Implementing a Government-Recognized Cybersecurity Program On January 5, President Trump signed a new law providing Safe Harbor for HIPAA...
HIPAA Omnibus
Many organizations probably didn’t even realize that OCR (HHS’ department in charge of HIPAA) had put in place HIPAA audits since the pilot program...
We recently sat down with Alisha R. Smith, RHIA, HIM Compliance Educator at Healthport, to talk about HIPAA Omnibus and one of the components that was left out...
The following is a guest blog post by Rita Bowen, Sr. Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer at HealthPort. After all of the hullabaloo since the U.S...
Late last year HIPAA Omnibus went into effect and changed the world of HIPAA as we know it. The consequences of a HIPAA violation for both covered entities and...
Let’s take a bold, but realistic look at what we can expect in 2014 when it comes to healthcare IT, EMR and HIPAA. It will be fun to look back at the end...
As we wrap up 2013, I thought I’d take a look back at some of the major things that happened in 2013. They will be topics you’re very familiar...
Manny Jones, health care solution manager at LockPath, recently sent me 5 tips to consider in order to meet HIPAA guidelines. It addresses some of the...
The following is a guest post by Dr. Deborah Peel, Founder of Patient Privacy Rights. On November 12th, Abbott released his “We the People Plan”...
One of the real telling things I learned this week as I traveled to the MGMA Annual Conference and then the CHIME Fall Forum was how unprepared organizations...