Safety & Compliance

Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA Compliant

June 21, 2017

This post, Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA Compliant, first appeared on http://hitconsultant.net/. by Our Thought Leaders | 06/20/2017 Editor’s Note: Brady Ranum is VP of Products and Strategy at Dizzion, a cloud delivered desktop and end user computing solutions provider. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing two major trends that are on a potentially dangerous collision course: the rise of telemedicine (and the corresponding increase in remote workers) and a spike in healthcare data breaches. As early as […]

Tips to Ensure Healthcare Marketing Campaigns are HIPAA Compliant

June 15, 2017

This post, Tips to Ensure Healthcare Marketing Campaigns are HIPAA Compliant, first appeared on https://tech.co/. June 13, 2017 Searching for health-related information on the Internet is perhaps one of the most popular activities today. Statistics reported by Pew research data indicates that about 72% of internet users have been found looking for healthcare information online. And in an attempt to keep pace with the changing trends, marketers are inclining more towards digital marketing tactics, making […]

Giving a Speech? Be Careful About Privacy Violations

June 5, 2017

This post, Giving a Speech? Be Careful About Privacy Violations, first appeared on http://www.govinfosecurity.com/. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • June 2, 2017 A recent speech by a health insurance company executive is stirring up debate about whether a patient’s privacy can be violated even if the patient’s name is never revealed. An executive from health insurer WellMark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, in a speech at a local Rotary Club meeting, tried to illustrate […]

Health Care: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World

June 5, 2017

This post, Health Care: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World, first appeared on http://www.thelegalintelligencer.com/. June 6, 2017 | Melanie Bork Graham  and Leeza Garber, The Legal Intelligencer We are currently witnessing the most expansive digitization of health care in history (Professor Jonathan Weiner, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, September 26, 2014; Graham, M.B., Thomas Jefferson School of Population Health Capstone Proposal, July 2016). The national push to digitize comes with new regulatory standards for securing data […]

5 HIPAA & HITECH breaches that cost businesses millions

June 1, 2017

This post, 5 HIPAA & HITECH breaches that cost businesses millions, first appeared on http://gazette.com/. May 30, 2017 Updated: May 30, 2017 at 1:45 pm You’ve probably read and heard a lot about just how costly HIPAA and HITECH violations can be. Think a monster fine couldn’t happen to your business, or that these huge fines aren’t doled out regularly? Think again. Here are five jaw-dropping electronic protected healthcare information (ePHI) breaches that cost businesses millions — some […]

HIPAA Spring Check-Up: Your Obligations to Safeguard Third-Party Patient Health Information in Medical Records Produced in Litigation

May 25, 2017

This post, HIPAA Spring Check-Up: Your Obligations to Safeguard Third-Party Patient Health Information in Medical Records Produced in Litigation, first appeared on http://www.natlawreview.com/. Tuesday, May 23, 2017 You’ve had your apple a day, but you can’t keep the subpoenas away… And, if your organization is facing a request seeking records or other materials that may contain patient health information (“PHI”), it bears repeating that while HIPAA provides a number of methods through which covered entities […]

How OSHA’s HazCom Standard Protects Both Employers and Employees

May 17, 2017

This post, How OSHA’s HazCom Standard Protects Both Employers and Employees, first appeared on http://www.digitaljournal.com/. New York, NY – May 15, 2017 – (Newswire.com) First adopted in the U.S. in 1983, the Hazard Communication standard is meant to protect workers who work with or around hazardous chemicals. While some employers may view the HazCom standard as a hassle, it protects employers just as much as it does employees, according to Msds Catalog Service LLC. First […]

Two HIPAA Mistakes Lead to Fines from OCR

May 17, 2017

This post, Two HIPAA Mistakes Lead to Fines from OCR, first appeared on http://www.natlawreview.com/. Monday, May 1, 2017 It was a busy April for the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) (see our prior post on a settlement from earlier in April). On April 20, OCR announced a Resolution Agreement with Center for Children’s Digestive Health, S.C. (“CCDH”) related to CCHD’s failure to enter into a business associate agreement with a paper medical records storage vendor. The cost of that missing agreement? $31,000. Then, on April […]

Between RCRA and a Hard Place: Operating Under Conflicting Regulations

April 27, 2017

This post, Between RCRA and a Hard Place: Operating Under Conflicting Regulations, first appeared on http://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com. HazMat Transportation Clare Condon Monday – April 24, 2017 Do federal hazardous materials transportation regulations outweigh how a state interprets and enforces hazardous waste regulations? In times when the federal government bends toward extreme leniency or extreme enforcement, cases such as one currently playing out in Oregon could have ramifications for environment, health, and safety managers (EHS) nationwide. What are […]

How healthcare organizations should prepare for a HIPAA audit

April 27, 2017

This post, How healthcare organizations should prepare for a HIPAA audit, first appeared on www.healthdatamanagement.com. The time to prepare for a HIPAA audit is before the notification letter of a forthcoming audit hits a provider organization’s mailbox. Absent preparation, an entity facing an audit will have to scramble to develop policies and procedures for protecting health information, and performing that through a rush job will look exactly like a rush job to regulators, who are […]

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