Employees Are Your Biggest HIPAA Vulnerability
While 2015 was accurately dubbed “The Year of the Healthcare Hack”, according to Experian’s 2016 Data Breach Report, 2016’s largest threat hits much closer to home – it’s your own employees. The Experian report states, “While large breaches may be compromising...
Real World Cost of a HIPAA Breach
When we talk about HIPAA compliance much of the emphasis is on avoiding Office of Civil Rights (OCR) fines and penalties. It is understandable that some of you may be skeptical about the threat of an audit happening to your company. However, the cost of a real world...
A Real World Breach – Why HIPAA Compliance Matters
Developing and implementing a HIPAA compliance plan can often seem like preparing for a tornado on a sunny day. You’ve never had a real-world breach before and you don’t foresee an OCR audit anytime in the near future. However, as one of our clients recently...
The Value of Healthcare Data
The rising number of healthcare hacks demonstrates that healthcare data has tremendous value in the wrong hands. Some experts call 2015 “the year of the healthcare hack.” This year brought us some of the largest hacks to date, like: Premera Blue Cross — 11...
It’s Time to Report Small Breaches – Don’t Miss the Deadline
HIPAA breaches involving less than 500 individuals during the calendar year 2015 must be reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by Monday, February 29th, 2016. Why Do Small Breaches Need to be Reported? Every breach involving fewer than 500...
What is a Zero-Day Security Flaw?
As you have been developing, updating and improving your HIPAA Security Plan, you have probably come across the term zero-day. To most IT departments this is a very common term; for the rest of us not only may it be new, but the words that come after it can sound...
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Internet Explorer NOW and Forever
Upgrading software is a pain! Updates seem to pop up at the most inopportune time. You have to budget time to download the patch and then your system is out of commission for 30 minutes to an hour, and what do you get? Another patch. How important are those patches...
Infographic: 9 Important Items Disaster Recovery Plans Should Include
Reading through pages of HIPAA articles and advice about disaster recovery plans can be daunting. Here’s an easy way to understand the 9 most important items disaster recovery plans should include.