by Stephanie Crabb | Mar 28, 2016 | eSecure Wire
We’ve been talking and blogging about them for months…the forthcoming OCR HIPAA Desk Audits. It comes down to one thing…your program documentation. When most CCOs, CPOs and CISOs we talk to think about documentation, they believe that they stand on...
by Stephanie Crabb | Mar 23, 2016 | eSecure Wire
“Two major cornerstones of the HIPAA Rules were overlooked by this entity,” said Jocelyn Samuels, Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). “Organizations must have in place compliant business associate...
by Stephanie Crabb | Feb 11, 2016 | eData Wire, eSecure Wire
Republished from www.healthcareinfosecurity.com The Obama administration’s proposed fiscal 2017 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services yet again seeks additional funding for the long overdue HIPAA compliance audit program and a variety of other...
by Stephanie Crabb | Oct 12, 2015 | Company News, eSecure Wire
If it’s not every week, it’s every two weeks that we hear reports of a healthcare security breach and despite the healthcare regulations, we still have health systems that don’t seem to take data protection seriously enough or health systems that...
by Stephanie Crabb | May 18, 2015 | eData Wire, eSecure Wire
From CHIME’s weekly Washington Debrief Newsletter: Key Takeaway: A bill that would establish new criteria for interoperability cleared the first hurdle toward passage last week, as the 21st Century Cures initiative was unanimously approved by the Energy & Commerce...
