Healthcare Continues to Dominate Breach Related Costs
A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of IBM Security confirmed the fears of so many healthcare information security professionals, no other personal information yields a higher value than compromised patient records. Across the country, healthcare organizations have a Goliath size security problem. For an eight-straight year, healthcare has the highest breach-related …
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Similar but Different: Gap Assessment vs Risk Analysis
If you’ve heard the terms gap assessment and risk analysis used interchangeably before in privacy or security conversations, you are not alone. At HIPAA One, we have found that there are quite a few misconceptions about these two approaches and how to differentiate between them. So much so that we addressed the topic on a …
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GDPR and Windows 10 Compliance
This is the second post in a 2-part series on GDPR. Guest post written in collaboration with Microsoft. On April 14, 2016, the European Union (EU) ratified the final version of the General Data Protection Regulation aka GDPR. The new GDPR regulation has been characterized as the most sweeping and impactful change to privacy and …
GDPR and the Impact on U.S. Healthcare Providers
A new acronym has begun popping up within the healthcare technology community and is slowly beginning to gain momentum in the way of media coverage and industry articles. If you’ve heard the term GDPR in the past few months and did not understand what it was referring to, know that you’re not alone. In fact, we conducted a recent webinar …
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Cloud Security in Healthcare
Guest Blog by Yiannis Koukouras, TwelveSec in collaboration with HIPAA One In our culture, something or someone is always trending. Whether it be bell-bottom jeans in the ’70’s, playing Nintendo in the ’80’s or watching stock market go up and down (whenever!), trends are a lenses through which we see the world. Much like trends …
Missed your SRA in 2017? Here’s How to Avoid a MIPS Penalty
First, do your HIPAA Security Risk Analysis immediately to reduce chances of a breach while maintaining compliance with all Federal reimbursement programs. With just mere days left before the March 31st MIPS submission deadline, if you have not already pulled together the necessary documentation for the previous calendar year, it is the time to do …
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Consequences for HIPAA Violations
A recent HHS Office for Civil Rights email blast outlined a story that many of us have heard before, another business closed with significant monies paid out in fines. Filefax, Inc. has agreed to pay $100,000 in order to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Once a medical records storage company for covered …
We’ve Helped Many Access the LADMF! Need Assistance?
Last May, we wrote a “How To” blog on the Social Security Limited Access Death Master File (LADMF) aka DMF and the response has been overwhelming! The HIPAA One team is delighted by how many of you have come forward and asked us to assist your organization in accessing this file. As the rest of …
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Newly Released Whitepaper Co-Authored with Microsoft
The concept of the “Internet of Things” (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation as more and more companies are interconnecting everyday objects around us to the internet, such as: medical devices, appliances, voices and faces, HVAC systems, TVs, vehicles, money and health information. These devices are now enabled to record and exchange …
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2017 Deadlines for EHR Incentive Programs
Does your workplace accept any payments from EHR incentive programs like MACRA or Meaningful Use? If so, the fourth quarter is probably a busy time preparing and finalizing documents for submission. At HIPAA One, we understand the amount of extra work that can add to a workforce. Therefore, we would like to provide a little …
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