• 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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• Manage Your Security Posture and Compliance Posture with the Aegify Suite
  The task of managing security is complex, and with sophisticated tools,cyber-attackers today unfortunately have asymmetric advantages over businesses. More than 31,800 security gaps have been identified and documented as vulnerabilities, and the number is growing.
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• More Emphasis on Risk Assessments in Stage-3 of Incentive Program
  The need for periodic risk assessments in healthcare will get continued emphasis as federal advisers are now considering options for reinforcing its importance in Stage 3 of the EHR Incentive Program under the HITECH Act.
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• New HIPAA Audit Plans Met with Mixed Reviews
  The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights actively preparing for the next round of HIPAA compliance audits are encountering mixed reviews
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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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• 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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• Preparing for OCR Audits May Not be the same –A Few Tips to see you through
  The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has unveiled the new look of its Phase 2 audit program. Highly unlike the previous ones, the Phase 2 audit program will be seeing the OCR conducting audits, concentrating on high-risk areas, eliminating on-site visits, and potentially integrating the audits into OCR’s formal enforcement program
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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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• Security Posture Management Enters the Cloud
  When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
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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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• Staying Prepared for an MU Audit” – An Imperative Not to be Ignored
  According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at least one in 20 MU attesters will undergo a meaningful use audit, of which 50 percent are more likely to undergo a pre-payment audit. - See more at: http://www.egestalt.com/blog/2014/04/21/staying-prepared-for-an-mu-audit-an-imperative-not-to-be-ignored/#sthash.DhdOXIHF.dpuf
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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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• 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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• 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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• Unraveling the Details of Second Round of HIPAA Audits
  Unlike the usual HIPAA audits conducted earlier, round two of the HIPAA audits is to be a limited number of focused "desk audits," along with a comprehensive on-site audits, performed by none other than the staff of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
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