• HIPAA Rule Gets Tougher- ‘Breach’ Redefined
  With the HIPAA Privacy and Security final rule released on January 17th also comes some significant changes that are likely to impact the healthcare industry. While this final rule, to a large extent tracks what was in the proposed rule, certain changes are expected to catch the attention of healthcare providers in the country, according to Bob Belfort, partner in the healthcare practice at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which works with states and providers on health IT and related public policy issues, and frequently helps clients craft breach notifications.
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• HIPAA/HITECH compliance
  This is a two-part article that looks at PCI DSS and the means of achieving compliance through an effective PCI compliance management solution.
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• HIPAA/HITECH Compliance solution
  SecureGRC SB from eGestalt is an innovative and unified security monitoring and HIPAA and HITECH compliance management software service delivered from the cloud and is up-to-date—with the latest versions and revisions of relevant regulations/standards
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• HIPAA/HITECH Compliance: How to be ready for an OCR Audit?
  HIPAA/HITECH compliance is a complex and ever evolving subject affecting millions of health care businesses and their business associates. All medical providers and their business associates need to be HIPAA/HITECH compliant. Besides, all medical providers have a joint responsibility to ensure that they along with their business associates and subcontractors are HIPAA/HITECH compliant, otherwise they risk high fines, potential criminal liabilities and patient lawsuits followed by brand damage.
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• HIPAA/HITECH Compliance: How to effectively manage the security and compliance status for your business associates and subcontr
  Please join us for an educational webinar on April 2, 2013, 11:00am PST and April 9, 2013, 11:00am PST, exclusively designed to address the HIPAA/HITECH requirements for medical providers and their Business associates and sub-contractors.
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• Importance of Staying HIPAA and HITECH Compliant
  An integral aspect of IT security is managing the regulatory compliance needs efficiently. Security compliance programs today, like GLBA (Gramm-Leach Bliley Act), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the Sarbanes-Oxley are becoming dynamic.
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• Insights as you Broach Breach Prevention in 2014
  Breach prevention is a crucial goal for every healthcare entity. While you want to avoid the pain caused to your organization in the event of a breach, you also want to protect the interest of your patients and health plan members.
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• Lack of Encryption Causes Major Breach, Yet Again
  There has been enough and more said about the importance of encryption in safeguarding protected health information (PHI). But data breaches resulting due to lack of encryption continue to fill up the ‘wall of shame’, with the latest addition being a breach reported by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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• Lessons Learned From the ‘Wall of Shame’
  The HIPAA breach notification rule came into effect in September 2009. According to federal authorities, in these four years, the ‘Wall of Shame’ has seen 674 major breaches that affected a total of 27 million individuals.
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• Milestones to Cross Before the HIPAA Enforcement Deadline
  The HIPAA omnibus enforcement deadline of September 23rd is fast approaching, and with less than two months left, it’s time for covered entities and business associates to spruce up compliance efforts and tick-off tasks in the to-do list.
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• Number of Data Breach Victims Doubled in 2013
  With contributions of a few mega healthcare data breaches in 2013, the number of individuals affected now is more than twice the number in 2012.
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• PCI compliance management
  This is a two-part article that looks at PCI DSS and the means of achieving compliance through an effective PCI compliance management solution.
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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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• 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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• Risk Assessment System
  Most healthcare organizations are interested in improving security, availability and performance of their data and applications.
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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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• 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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• Surviving a ‘Meaningful Use’ Audit
  The preliminary results of the ‘Meaningful Use’ audits conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have indicated that healthcare providers are having trouble substantiating their attestations, and are especially facing issues with documentation. - See more at: http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2013/10/17/surviving-a-meaningful-use-audit/#sthash.kwmkTDDW.dpuf
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• The UCF® Announces UCFinterchange to Support Cybersecurity
  Unified Compliance, the premier provider of IT compliance mapping and creators of the Unified Compliance Framework® (UCF), announced UCFinterchange (UCFi) at the PCI Security Standards Council 2013 Community Meeting.
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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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