In August 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued the Health Breach Notification Rule (Breach Rule), which requires vendors of personal health records and related entities to provide notice to consumers following a breach. After over a decade without any...
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In statements throughout his tenure as Director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights from 2017-2021, Roger Severino was repeatedly critical of organizations for not performing a risk analysis or taking action to mitigate identified risks, as required by the HIPAA Security...
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Introduction The HIPAA Security Rule, is a set of national standards designed to help organizations protect PHI that’s created, received, used, or maintained by a healthcare covered entity, with compliance expectations that extend to business associates as well....
Introduction Across the healthcare industry, large physician groups are becoming increasingly common, as investors bring disparate physician practices together to keep up with healthcare challenges and ever-more complex treatment and service delivery needs. Today,...
Introduction As the world is more connected to digital life, state and federal agencies are issuing a growing number of standards and mandates focused on data privacy and protection. Across the U.S., many states—for example, California, Nevada, and Maine—have already...
In addition to being a HIPAA Security Rule requirement, conducting regular risk analyses is a fundamental business practice, yet many healthcare organizations struggle with the basics, from understanding Introduction Despite many warnings from the Office for Civil...
Introduction Organizations of all sizes struggle with embedding policies and procedures successfully into their day-to-day operations. That’s because for many, these policies fill binders and shared drives, overwhelming employees with pages and pages of instruction...
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