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...