• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wrapping-Up HIPAA Compliance Chores
  The HIPAA enforcement deadline is here, and healthcare entities have been busy finishing up compliance tasks. Updating business associate agreements-which is necessitated by the HIPAA Omnibus rule where business associates and their subcontractors are, for the first time, directly liable for compliance under HIPAA.
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