Total HIPAA Compliance Releases HIPAA WorkForce Training for Agents, Employers, and Business Associates
Total HIPAA Compliance (www.TotalHIPAA.com) announces the release of WorkForce training for three markets – Insurance Agents/Brokers, Employers and Business Associates/Subcontractors. These WorkForce modules train employees who must follow the HIPAA Rules, but do not...
Choosing a HIPAA Information Security Officer
Last week we addressed what a company needs to think about before appointing a Privacy Officer. Now we address the qualifications for an Information Security Officer or ISO. Like your Privacy Officer, your ISO needs to be someone internal who is able to monitor...Qualifications for a HIPAA Privacy Officer
This week I had a client ask me for a list of qualifications for a Privacy Officer. This seemed like a nice blog topic, so I will list qualifications for the Privacy officer this week, and next week we will talk about qualifications for the Security officer....
Password Management Programs and HIPAA
This question has come up multiple times over the past few weeks, especially with the HeartBleed issue a few weeks ago. Are password management programs HIPAA compliant? Password Management programs like Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass, etc., help with the inconvenience...
Medicare Training (AHIP) vs. HIPAA Training
This was a question from one of our clients this past week. They sell Medicare Advantage policies and, as a prerequisite to selling these policies, are required to go through AHIP’s marketing certification for MA policies. By going through this Medicare training and...
HIPAA in the Cloud
This week we have a client who is trying to decide whether they are going to supply mobile phones for their employees vs. having them use their own (Bringing Your Own Device, or BYOD). The question was, “We are using cloud based apps to store PHI, and there wouldn’t...
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...