by Stephanie Crabb | Feb 25, 2016 | eData Wire, eSecure Wire
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has stepped up its efforts to provide practical guidance around HIPAA for the industry in its new blog series, “The Real HIPAA” and supporting fact sheets on the topics addressed in the blog. Healthcare has been starving...
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...
by Stephanie Crabb | May 16, 2015 | eSecure Wire
The OCR HIPAA Audit Entity Survey is finalized and may be coming to your email inbox any day. The screening questionnaire signals the kickoff to the long-anticipated OCR HIPAA Audit Program. The screening questionnaire is intended to gather data about the size,...
