• OCR Enforcement & Penalties for HIPAA Non-Compliance
  Healthcare entities now have to take protection of Patient Health Information much more seriously than ever before- because non-compliance with HIPAA can now attract a whole range penalties, both civil and criminal., The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, better known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule put forth a set of national standards for use and disclosure of individuals’ health information.
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• Pay for Breach Prevention Now, or Pay Penalties Later
  A commonly seen problem across healthcare entities of all sizes is underfunding of security programs. Healthcare providers around the country face financial difficulties, as a result of which, they’re finding it hard to meet security requirements and compliance deadlines.
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• Permanent HIPAA Audit Program to Begin in 2014
  The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights had earlier announced that the audit program would resume in the fiscal year 2014. The latest update is that federal regulators are planning a permanent HIPAA audit program that would begin next year.
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• Phase 2 HIPAA Audits to Begin Soon
  Phase 2 of the much talked about HIPAA audits will soon begin, and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is all set to review the compliance .Find out more.
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• Revamp of HIPAA Disclosures Rule Endorsed
  Safeguarding patient health information has always remained one of the top priorities for healthcare. To further this interest, federal advisors have spelled out revisions to the HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures Rule.
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• Revisions to Civil Penalty Structure – What This Means to Healthcare
  The HIPAA Omnibus rule has held the attention of healthcare entities for some time now, and with this final rule coming to effect, covered entities have to give significant consideration to the potential civil penalties related to the HITECH Act, which are now associated with the rule.
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• Rodriguez’s Thoughts & Guidance on HIPAA Enforcement
  In the keynote presentation at the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum in Boston on 23rd September, the Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Leon Rodriguez addressed the areas of focus for the HIPAA enforcement actions to be undertaken by OCR, and gave specific perspective advice for organizations that are under the purview of OCR.
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• SecureGRC - IT Security and Compliance Webinars
  eGestalt offers you free on demand IT Security and Compliance webinars on how SecureGRC can help organizations to gain control and improve compliance levels across regulation while effectively managing the status.
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• Shellshock – New Vulnerability that Healthcare Sector must address now
  As the federal tally of major breaches increased to a total of 1074 incidents affecting 33.7 million individuals since 2009, there are more such incidents added to the list every day.
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• Small Breach but Big Price for HIPAA Violation
  While there has been continued emphasis on the need for conducting risk analysis and encrypting data, there are still many providers who are yet to take these calls for action seriously.
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• Stage 2 of HITECH Act Unveiled- New Requirements on Privacy & Security
  While you may be striving to achieve ‘meaningful use’ status to qualify for the EHR incentives, some new requirements on privacy and security have surfaced as part of the proposed rule which defines how to achieve ‘meaningful use’ of electronic health records (EHR) to qualify for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act EHR incentive program.
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• Surviving OCR Breach Investigations & Audits with Tips from HIPAA Expert
  With the OCR ramping up enforcement activities, and issuing a number of HIPAA compliance settlements, it has become imperative for healthcare entities to act swiftly, and meet all the requirements to successfully survive any OCR breach investigations and upcoming audits.
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• Thorough Risk Assessment-The Need of the Hour
  Conducting ongoing risk assessment is the key to tackling the upcoming HIPAA audits. Verne Rinker, a Health Information Privacy Specialist of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, in an interview with Information Security Media Group, revealed that out of the 115 entities audited during the pilot program last year, two-thirds had either non-existent or inaccurate risk assessments.
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• Treating PHI as a Business Asset – OCR’s HIPAA Compliance Insights
  Patient Health Information (PHI) is as important an asset as any other. Healthcare providers and business associates therefore have to ensure that they protect patient records as they would protect any other significant business asset.
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• TRICARE Data Breach- Another Warning Sign!
  Protecting sensitive data is certainly not as simple as we may imagine- and yet another incident of data theft demonstrates this beyond any doubt. In what is reported to be the largest data breach incident since the HIPAA breach notification rule came into effect, the Defense Department’s TRICARE healthcare program, which serves active duty troops and their departments, military retirees etc., reported theft of backup tapes of electronic health records.
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• TRICARE in Trouble Again- More Lawsuits to Face
  For TRICARE, the aftermath of last year’s massive breach incident has proved to be an ongoing nightmare. Being the largest health information breach reported since the HIPAA breach notification rule came into effect in September 2009, the TRICARE breach has repeatedly attracted aggressive legal action. Nearly 4.9 million beneficiaries were affected by the breach, and 3 class action lawsuits were filed against TRICARE, one of which demanded $4.9 billion in damages.
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• Two Huge Data Breaches Headed to the Wall of Shame
  With the ‘Wall of Shame’ having a fewer number of breaches added in the past month, and the breaches of 2013 so far being much smaller than the alarming numbers of the past year, there was a sense of mild relief felt in the healthcare sector.
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• Understanding the Concept of Meaningful Use
  SecureGRC from eGestalt helps secure federal grants with its tools to demonstrate Meaningful Use. It provides all the necessary expertise to access, analyze and mitigate regulation risk and move towards on-going HIPAA/HITECH compliance.
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• Unencrypted Data- An Ongoing Problem
  Stolen or lost unencrypted devices have always posed a significant threat to healthcare entities throughout the United States for quite some time now. And a new breach report by the California Attorney General’s office confirms an ongoing problem.
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• Unified Security Monitoring
  eGestalt’s SecureGRC SB is an innovative and unified security monitoring and HIPAA/HITECH compliance management software service delivered from the cloud and constantly kept completely up–to–date–with the latest versions and revisions of relevant compliance regulations/standards
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