What is Protected Health Information? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a 1996 law that regulates privacy standards in the healthcare sector. In the early 1990s, it… Read More ›

Andrew Kroninger, Total HIPAA’s Director of Customer Success, recently interviewed Gil Vidal, founder and CEO of VM Racks, a HIPAA compliant cloud managing solution. The two discussed Gmail’s potential for… Read More ›

HIPAA breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals, which occurred during 2018, must be reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by Friday, March 1, 2019. Reporting… Read More ›

Every year, we publish Microsoft’s End of Support list because using up-to-date programming is key for HIPAA compliance. Microsoft will terminate support for earlier versions of a long list of… Read More ›

Here at Total HIPAA, we pride ourselves on providing many helpful resources for all businesses striving for HIPAA compliance. Our weekly blog is one of the many services we offer…. Read More ›

Implementing cybersecurity policies is one of the most effective ways to protect your clients’ or employees’ PHI. Hackers frequently target databases containing sensitive health information because they can generate huge… Read More ›

We have witnessed an explosion of technological innovation since HIPAA was enacted in 1996. Most businesses swapped their filing cabinets for cloud computing systems years ago. This new method of… Read More ›

This month, we devoted multiple blog posts to covering major HIPAA violations and their penalties. Today’s post will explain the most common causes of breaches and the easiest ways to… Read More ›