1. Learn How to handle the biggest danger faced by Healthcare organizations, Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11am PT, Duration: 30 Mts As a compliance professional dealing with business associates agreements, when you think of the OCR HIPAA audit, what’s your first reaction? Is it one of confidence? Or is it anxiety and stress? If it’s…
Background & Challenges “We had no idea where our compliance posture stood, or how much of our daily practices were already in compliance. However we did know that we were not in compliance as much as we should’ve been,” said Donnell, office manager for Internal Medicine Associates of Memphis, Tennessee. This is not an uncommon…
Background & Challenges Barbara is the office manager for a Grand Rapids, Michigan family practice with four staffers and 1800 patients. The practitioner has been providing healthcare services to patients for 24 years. While attending her monthly association meeting of regional physician office managers, Barbara met local services provider Joe Dylewski, president of ATMP Solutions,…
According to industry experts, 2011 is the year when IT firms will realize that expensive risk management and compliance solutions may not provide the desired levels of security. Integration and alignment of disparate compliance initiatives for enhanced security controls will therefore assume immense importance. Chris Mclean, Forrester research analyst, in his report Governance, Risk and…
The first action by a state Attorney General for violation of HIPAA (after HITECH authorized State Attorneys General to enforce HIPAA) has resulted in an unprecedented money settlement with the AG’s office. The case involved unreported loss of a compact disk by Health Net containing private medical records, social security numbers and financial information. While…
You must have read the news about a new security standard for SMBs- Visa changes rules for SMBs: be PCI DSS compliant or face penalties– Primarily focusing on safeguarding customers_blank’ confidential data after making payment using a credit card, this new security standard requires SMBs accepting credit/ debit card payments to enroll into the PCI…
Did you know : Approximately 500 million records containing personal identifying information of United States residents stored in government and corporate databases was either lost or stolen in the last 5 years? Various other corporations lost US$1 Trillion worldwide as a result of data loss, accidental or malicious? Costs from the largest computer data breach…
