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Why Employers Need to be HIPAA Compliant
HIPAA compliance for employers is a complicated and nuanced topic. No employer group is the same when it comes to supplying health benefits to their employees. Smaller employers (fewer than 50...
Secure Remote Work During COVID-19
Jason Karn, Total HIPAA’s Chief Compliance Officer, recently interviewed Erik Kangas, founder and CEO of LuxSci. LuxSci provides email encryption, web hosting, forms, and secure sending services for...
Most Popular HIPAA Compliant File Sharing Apps
HIPAA compliant file sharing apps are necessary if your company is dealing with personal health data. File sharing is a critical tool used by businesses and healthcare providers to easily share,...
Guest Blog from GRA: Have there been HIPAA breaches by insurance agencies?
This week, I’m off singing at the Newport Music Festival.
On to the blog of the week from our partner GRA ...
Question: Why do I have to train all my IT Staff on HIPAA?
I hope everyone had a happy and healthy 4th of July! Last week, I received this question from one of our clients. ...
Analysis of the Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured PHI
For Calendar Years 2011 and 2012
Just released, the original report is pretty long, and well, let’s face it, a ...
Guest Blog: When Was Your Last HIPAA Training?
This week, we are posting a guest blog from our friends over at GRA. They are one of our preferred partners and ...
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 – ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Happy Spring!
We’ve been having some lovely spots of weather here, well minus ice, and a Nor’easter is projected this week… It ...
HIPAA and Your Contract Employees
This week we are dealing with contract employees or independent contractors, either of which are usually paid by ...
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 ...
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 ...
Are Employers Covered Entities?
This question came from one of our partners last week, and I think this is worth a full blog topic. Are employers ...
Windows XP™ is Gasping for Breath – HIPAA Compliance Becomes an Issue
Microsoft: Bring out your dead…. Bring out your dead!
Windows 8: Here’s one!
Windows XP: I’m not dead ...
Updates to Training
We have been busy adding to our already comprehensive training and updating our programming to make your user ...
Answering Questions: Do I need a business associate agreement for my web provider?
Today’s blog is going to be a little free form. I’m going to answer some questions that our clients have asked.
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Take control of your compliance.
