HIPAA Privacy Officer—Your Quarterback for HIPAA Compliance
The past 2 weeks, I’ve been guest blogging with our friends NueMD with help from Daniel Brown, Esq. with Taylor English LLP. We have discussed 8 Ways HIPAA Has Changed with the Omnibus Ruling, and 5 Steps for Implementing a Successful HIPAA Compliance Plan. Also, I...
7 Reasons You Need Annual HIPAA Retraining
The HIPAA Law states that Covered Entities, Business Associates and Business Associate Subcontractors must train all its workforce members on HIPAA.1 The Law doesn’t give us guidance on the frequency of HIPAA Training, so is one time training enough? I DON’T THINK SO!...
Is an Audit Trail Enough For HIPAA Compliance?
A client posed this question, and I decided it would be a great opportunity to clarify how you communicate securely with your clients when using encrypted email and the like. When reviewing the capabilities of a file-sharing program with a client, they stated they met...
California and a Whole Lot of Breaching Going On
In 2013, the California healthcare sector had a bad year! They were responsible for 15% of the breaches by industry and 6% of the total number of records breached… 6%, that’s not so bad for total numbers, right? I mean the retail sector had 15.6 million records...