Sue Brown is a home care agency administrator known for her relentless pursuit of excellence through technology and training. A former president of the Colorado Association for Home Care, and still a sometime lobbyist, her agency, Home Care of the Grand Valley in Grand Junction, was the first to receive a Medicaid payment for […]
Try this. Set up a Google News Alert for the keywords “Security Breach” and count the number of incidents that reach your email inbox every day. Had you done this on May 15, you would have read about 400 breaches by now. Protecting patient health information is serious business; failing to fulfill HIPAA obligations […]
Again, thanks to everyone who participated in the Home Care Technology Report HIPAA Compliance Survey we ran from February 23 through March 26. The purpose of the survey was to gather information in a manner that would allow us to compare it to the Ponemon Institute Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and […]
Which of these three causes more HIPAA breaches than the others? Lost or stolen mobile devices, third party privacy or security errors, or intentional or unintentional employee violations? The answers may surprise you. This article discussed these causes of HIPAA breaches based on responses from readers of this e-newsletter, to the Home Care Technology […]
Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Home Care Technology Report HIPAA compliance survey we ran from February 23 through March 26. The purpose of the survey was to gather information in a manner that would allow us to compare it to the Ponemon Institute Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and […]
by Elizabeth Hogue, Esq. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued final rules to: Modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules to implement statutory amendments under the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) to strengthen the privacy and security protection […]
