A Business Associate is a person or organization, other than an employee of a covered entity, who performs functions or provides services related to creating, receiving, maintaining,
By now, you know that international ransomware attackers have hit health systems in the United States. While it’s up to the techs within your organization
With the onset of federally mandated enforcement of patient privacy laws, it’s a good time to review lessons from HIPAA cases announced in 2016. Common
The feds have released a new fact sheet that explains how HIPAA Rules permit disclosures of Protected Health Information (PHI) to support public health activities
Thank you to all who attended the HIPAA compliance session last week in Columbus at the fall conference of the Ohio Provider Resource Association (OPRA).
If you haven’t already, read the CMS memo to state survey agencies, ordering a crackdown on social media abuses. Policies aren’t enough, the memo says.
By Diane Evans Publisher, MyHIPAA Guide If we “fact check” presidential candidates, why not also fact check Medicare? After all, Medicare’s newly announced physician-reimbursement plan
By Diane Evans Publisher, MyHIPAA Guide In a great paradox of 21st Century medicine, none other than Medicare is a violator of the timeless standard
In a recent newsletter, the U.S. Office for Civil Rights (ORC) discussed the “insider threat” as one of the largest threats to the security of
The U.S. Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it is now working with its regional offices to “more widely investigate the root causes of breaches
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