• 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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• HITRUST Provides Strong Support to the Healthcare Industry against Cyber Attacks
  Cyber threats are on the rise. There is no denying that. As the healthcare industry continues its conversion process from paper documents to electronic medical records, a tremendous increase in the data breaches is being experienced. Operational inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities have skyrocketed in the health care sector, owing to the use of new technologies. The outdated organizational policies and employees’ negligence have added further to the woes.
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• How Prepared Are You for the Upcoming HIPAA Audit?
  With the long overdue HIPAA privacy and security compliance audit program scheduled to begin later this year or early next year, it’s time for every healthcare entity to do a reality check and find out if their privacy and security policies really work. Is your organization prepared for the upcoming HIPAA compliance audit? If yes, how well are you prepared?
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• How to Avoid Expensive HIPAA Non-Compliance Mistakes
  HIPPA Compliance management can be convoluted and at times expensive. However, think again if you are not compliant, as its non-compliance can cost you a huge packet! Phoenix Cardiac Surgery P.C, a small Arizona physician group practice can testify to that. Because of a three-year federal investigation that began on February 2009, this small practice faces a $100,000 penalty for HIPPA violations.
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• IT Security and Compliance Management Blogs
  One of the best ways to learn about Compliance is by reading about happenings and opinions in the blog post of eGestalt. Get the top HIPAA and OCR Audit blogs and get a unique perspective to pressing new compliance and audit problems
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• Major ‘Hack Attack’ Reported- Card-Holders at Risk
  Credit card companies have always been vulnerable to a number of security concerns. And with a hack attack reported by Global Payments, an Atlanta company processing credit and debit cards, these concerns have intensified. Potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of account holders to fraud, this attack has heightened customer concerns about identity theft.
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• PHI Compromised Yet Again- 4.2 Million Records at Stake
  In yet another breach incident, Sutter Health, an integrated delivery system, reported theft of a desktop device during the weekend of Oct 15 and 16. Sutter Health was in the process of encrypting all desktop computers when one of the devices yet to be encrypted, was stolen from an administrative office of Sutter Medical Foundation, a physician network based in Sacramento, California.
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• Protecting PHI on Mobile Devices Not to be taken Lightly
  Although there has been enough and more said about the importance of encryption in safeguarding protected health information (PHI), data breaches resulting due to lack of encryption seem to still be occurring. Almost every other day there is a new headline about a healthcare institution or a hospital encountering a HIPAA breach
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• Protecting PHI on Mobile Devices Not to be taken Lightly
  Although there has been enough and more said about the importance of encryption in safeguarding protected health information (PHI), data breaches resulting due to lack of encryption seem to still be occurring. Almost every other day there is a new headline about a healthcare institution or a hospital encountering a HIPAA breach
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• Small medical practice? Watch out. You are an easy prey for hackers
  If you are a small business with less than 500 employees, you are likely to be a target for information thefts. Hackers are increasingly targeting small organizations, as they are easier prey due to inadequate security infrastructure. A recent mid-November (2011) Research by Symantec “shows that at least 40 percent of all targeted attacks aimed at the corporate world are focused on companies with fewer than 500 employees compared with the 28 percent that are focused on large enterprises”
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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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• Tally of breach incidents grows by a whopping 67 percent a year after HIPAA Omnibus Rule!
  The largest breach added to the wall of shame since the enforcement of HIPAA Omnibus rule is the hacker attack at Community Health Systems resulting in 4.5 million affected individuals
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• The Health Breach Count Now Is Over 20 Million – An Alarming Fact
  The federal breach tally that has been growing steadily has now exceeded 20 million. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights usually adds breaches to its tally after it conducts an investigation and confirms the details. Since May 23rd 2012, 29 breaches have affected about 935,000 individuals have been added to the breach list.While most of the major breaches have involved lost or stolen unencrypted electronic devices, hacker attacks constituted 7 percent and nearly 22 percent of the breaches have involved a business associate.
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• The HIPAA Security Risk Analysis - Upcoming Webinar
  Join us for an educational webinar on: "The HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Deciding between Self-Assessment Tools vs. Expert HIPAA Report Guidance" on 30 April & 07 May 2014 @11am PDT
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• VARs and Solution Providers can get assistance
  Starting in 2011, all medical providers, including physicians, clinics, surgery centers and hospitals that can demonstrate “meaningful use” of health information systems in compliance with new government regulations, are eligible to recover $44,000 to $2.0 Million of their IT investment from the government.
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• What Factors Determine Financial Penalty for a Breach?
  The Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently reached a settlement demanding $1.5 million and corrective action as penalty in the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee case. This and the other similar breach cases where heavy penalties were sought, make us wonder ‘what are the determinants of the fine imposed by OCR?’
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