Is Skype HIPAA Compliant and Have You Updated Your BA Agreements?
This week we had an interesting discussion on Twitter about whether Skype was HIPAA Compliant or not? Well, there is a simple answer to this one, No. Wait, why not? Well, they encrypt the data stream using 256-bit encryption, it’s convenient because people are quite...
Heartbleed and HIPAA
On April 7th, the news hit the wire that there is a serious bug in the OpenSSL program – one of the most popular cryptography programs out there. This bug allowed information normally protected by an SSL/TLS license (a type of encryption) to be compromised. The...
Is it a breach, or not?
This week we had an interesting question come in. One of our clients was copied by a general agent in a response to an application for health insurance. This message contained ePHI that wasn’t encrypted. Was it a breach? What does that mean for the agents? Does the...