HIPAA Compliance
Practices Face Challenges in Hiring Qualified Cybersecurity Personnel
Health care cybersecurity is an area with severe shortages.
Texting Medical Orders Poses Risks
Institute of Safe Medication Practices indicates risks such as abbreviations, autocorrection
Keeping Patient Portals Secure
Authentication of users and where data are stored among the important considerations.
Be Prepared for Ransomware
If an attack occurs, a practice may be faced with the difficult decision of whether to pay money to get access to their information or have it returned.
Important HIPAA Compliance Issues in 2018
Patient access to medical records, increased enforcement, and a shortage of IT security professionals are among the concerns facing health care providers.
Password Sharing Common Among Doctors
No one admits to sharing passwords - a distinct and clear violation of HIPAA - but a lot of people seem to be doing it.
Lawsuits for Information Breaches May Be on the Rise
Physicians might not deal frequently with sensitive protected health information, but an increasing number of these lawsuits are being filed.
Keeping Ahead of the Hackers
It is relatively easy even for rookie hackers to get into computer systems.
Balancing Security and Access to Information
The challenge with information security is walking the line between tightly securing data and over-relaxing access.
Practices Have Latitude in Addressing Security Risks
Health care providers do not necessarily have to meet every HIPAA standard.
Training Staff in HIPAA Regulations
Physician organizations need to do a better job training staff in safeguarding protected health information and complying with HIPAA in other ways.
Risk Analyses Must Include All Electronic PHI
Practices involved in legal cases were penalized for not having completed a comprehensive risk assessment.
Safekeeping Patient Records Off-Site
Among the first things practices should do is set up a check-out/check-in system.
Controlling Access to Health Information
Access control often is viewed as an IT-only job, but it is a shared responsibility.
Corrective Action Plans May Accompany HIPAA Fines
In serious breach cases, the HHS Office for Civil Rights may impose CAPs to prevent breaches from recurring.
More HIPAA Articles
Staff Nurse Faces Jail Time for HIPAA Violations
A routine file maintenance ended in arrest and jail time for a licensed nurse who shared a patient's medical information with her spouse.
No Exception to HIPAA Privacy Rules, Nurse Learns
A nurse in the cardiology department of a large hospital saw nothing wrong with accessing the medical records of family members.
Common HIPAA Compliance Oversights
Compliance gurus bet there are at least a few things physicians are not doing to comply with HIPAA.
How to Comply with HIPAA
Healthcare providers have struggled with the need to comply with HIPAA, protect patient privacy and share information.
Fax Sent to Wrong Number Results in HIPAA Violation
Confidential health information was sent to a patient's employer by a physician, resulting in a HIPAA violation.
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