Cybersecurity Lessons and Trends to Review for the New Year
Use staff meetings or emails to keep current issues like phishing or social engineering in front of employees.
HIPAA
Protecting Your Practice From Data Breaches: An Expert Interview
To shed light on issues of cybersecurity in medical practices, MPR spoke to Michael J Sacopulos, JD, CEO of Medical Risk Institute (MRI), a firm that provides “proactive counsel” to the healthcare community to identify where liability risks originate and to reduce or remove those risks.
Blatant Failure to Report Breaches Can Bring Big Fines
The federal Office for Civil Rights fined Sentara Hospitals nearly $2.2 million for mailing protected health information to wrong addresses.
Breach Remediation May Impede Healthcare Quality
New study finds that steps taken to beef up security in response to a breach has the potential to slow down delivery of clinical services.
Providers Fall Short in Giving Patients Their Medical Records
Among medical practices, there is widespread noncompliance with HIPAA’s right of access rule.
Investing Wisely in Cybersecurity
To make the best use of the money they have to spend, practices need to perform a risk analysis.
Do You Really Have a Handle on Your PHI Data?
Health care organizations must determine where protective health information (PHI) is held and where those systems are vulnerable to breaches.
Timely Responses to Information Breaches Imperative
A quick, efficient response to a PHI breach can sometimes mean the difference between OCR pursuing a settlement or closing the HIPAA case.
Threat Analyses, Security Gap Remediation Key to HIPAA Compliance
In a recent press release, the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it concluded 2018 with a record of $28.7 million from the settlement of 10 cases and the winning of a judgment in another regarding HIPAA compliance violations. The amount was 22% greater than its previous high of $23.5 million in 2016. These…
OCR Probes HIPAA Impediments to Care Coordination
In addition to other input, the federal Office for Civil Rights wants to know how the privacy rule might be amended to encourage information sharing among providers.
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