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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Is it a breach, or not?
This week we had an interesting question come in. One of our clients was copied by a general agent in a response to an application for health insurance. This message ...
Happy Spring!
We’ve been having some lovely spots of weather here, well minus ice, and a Nor’easter is projected this week… It must mean that spring is in the air! With that in mind, it’s ...
HIPAA and Your Contract Employees
This week we are dealing with contract employees or independent contractors, either of which are usually paid by 1099. (Note: this does not mean that if they are given a ...
Do Business Associates need to report a breach to HHS, or to the Covered Entity?
Hello again, this question was posed to us this past week by one of our clients. Do Business Associates need to report a breach to HHS or should it be reported to the ...
What?!?! I need a BA Agreement with my email provider?
Here’s a question from our twitter feed this past week. Like most things in life, I think this needs a little more than 140 characters to explain, so here’s a blog post. Take ...
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