14
Aug
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: business associate agreements and HIPAA, HHS Office for Civil Rights and HIPAA, HIPAA, HIPAA compliance consultants, HIPAA compliance tracking, HIPAA risk mitigation plans, home healthcare patient record protection, home healthcare software vendors and data security, risk assessments, security breaches, security protection
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 […]
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15
Feb
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 […]
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