by Steve Cagle | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
In response to increasing regulatory and customer pressure to protect patient data, business associates are outsourcing their HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity programs to third-party healthcare privacy and security firms. This managed service approach results in a...
by Steve Cagle | Nov 15, 2019 | Blog
At the recent NIST-OCR Safeguarding Health Information (HIPAA Security) Conference Office for Civil Rights Director Roger Severino presented OCR’s top security concerns. He stated that they include ransomware, phishing attacks, remote desktop protocol vulnerabilities,...
by Steve Cagle | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
The recent $16 million HIPAA settlement with Anthem, Inc. in the wake of the 2015 breach of nearly 79 million records, has been well publicized. In this case, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that Anthem failed to take several basic security steps, including...
