6 Reasons Your Staff Needs to Be Up to Date on HIPAA
While many of us take our privacy for granted, HIPAA laws don't and can result in fines up to $1.5 million in a year. Even if you have a secure facility, you need to make sure that your patients and their information are protected.
Make sure…
Top 10 Benefits of Dedicated IT Support Services
Are you looking for a way to increase the information technology security in your medical office?
Dedicated IT support services are an effective way to make your office more secure. After all, the Ponemon Institute reports that data breaches…
Here’s A Checklist to Help Prepare for HIPAA Audits
HIPAA has been the law of the land since 1996. The Privacy and Security rules are also now over a decade old. That means there's little leeway when healthcare organizations make mistakes or fail to maintain standards set out by the law.
If…
Why You Need a HIPAA Security Breach Response Team
It's more common nowadays for patients to use technology at the doctors. Today, healthcare providers use electronic sign-in forms and databases more than ever.
The advancement of technology has certainly made things easier for doctors and patients.…
8 Common HIPAA Compliance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services received 21,381 HIPAA complaints in 2016.
How can you make sure your organization isn't included in that statistic? It can be hard to know if you're covering all your bases.
That's why we…
A Beginner’s Guide to the HIPAA Business Associate Agreement
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) provides a legal framework for protecting private medical information.
The law protects not only personally identifiable information but virtually all data collected by…
5 Best Practices to Incorporate in Your HIPAA Security Policy
Maintaining compliance with The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is essential for any medical organization.
HIPAA violations can cost your organization up to $50,000 per violation.
Having an effective, well designed…
Guide: What is HIPAA Compliance?
Are you familiar with HIPAA compliance?
Is your organization doing all that it is required to protect patient records?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has become very important in recent years. This is because…
What is Penetration Testing?
You might've heard of the term penetration testing if you work in computers, software, or web design fields. But what is penetration testing? And why should you bother with it?
Cyber threats, unfortunately, are very real in this day and…
How to Report and Prevent HIPAA Violations
As a medical and healthcare professional, you know that HIPAA laws and enforcement procedures are constantly evolving.
Sometimes, it's hard to keep up.
Still, that doesn't mean that you won't be held responsible in the event of a HIPAA violation.
In…
Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business
Since the start of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, there have been more than 167,000 complaints and potential violations.
As a medical professional, it's your responsibility to ensure that the medical information and data of your patients aren't compromised.
However,…
10 Common HIPAA Violations to be Aware Of
Proper ethics and policies to protect people's privacy in the healthcare industry have to be taken seriously. If your medical practice happens to get sloppy, HIPAA violation penalties can start as high as $50,000 per violation.
The total amount…
What is a HIPAA Risk Assessment and Why Do You Need One?
Are you in the medical field? Then you know just how important HIPAA is.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act passed in 1996 in an effort to provide data privacy and security standards. Protecting medical information has…
How to Avoid HIPAA Violations on Social Media
HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was passed in 1996 to streamline the U.S. healthcare system. It also protects patient privacy and manages how electronic data is handled. The revisions passed in 2013 known as…
HIPAA Compliant Health Marketing
It is a legal obligation for every medical service provider to safeguard a client's right to privacy and protect their personal and medical information.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) is the law that ensures…
How HIPAA Enforcement Protocols May Be Changing Soon
When it comes to protecting private medical information, proper HIPAA enforcement is of paramount importance.
With the change of hands in power, this enforcement may be changing as well. Learn what this could mean here.
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