by Bob Chaput | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog
September was a challenging month for healthcare cybersecurity professionals. According to the HIPAA Journal, there were 95 reported healthcare data breaches with 500 or more records breached that month. That’s nearing twice the highest single-monthly report in the...
by Jon Moore | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog
Delivering on the Promise of Digitizing Healthcare Information On May 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two Final Rules in the Federal Register targeted at improving interoperability[i] and patient access to health information[ii]....
by Steve Cagle | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
In late September, the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced three multi-million-dollar resolution agreements with two covered entities and one business associate. The enforcement actions, which settled violations of the...
by George W. Jackson, Jr., MBA, Ph.D., HCISPP, CISSP, PMP | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog
This is part one of a two-part blog series about telehealth and privacy and security assessments. In part one, I take a look at the current state of telehealth services, the impact of COVID-19 on telehealth, and what the future may look like. I’ll also share a bit...
by Wes Morris | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
The foundation of much of the privacy law in the United States is sectoral in nature – HIPAA for healthcare, Gramm-Leach-Bliley for banking, etc. In both these examples, privacy is not the central component, but is part of a much larger construct. As regards...