- 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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- 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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- Unified Security and Compliance Framework
eGestalt's SecureGRC includes all security & IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with unified compliance management framework, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing & easy to use logging & monitoring solution.
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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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- 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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- Webinar: How to Meet HIPAA Omnibus Compliance Using Aegify SecureGRC
Join eGestalt webinar on Dec 4, 2013 to learn how to meet HIPAA Omnibus Compliance requirements.
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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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