Medicare Training (AHIP) vs. HIPAA Training
This was a question from one of our clients this past week. They sell Medicare Advantage policies and, as a prerequisite to selling these policies, are required to go through AHIP’s marketing certification for MA policies. By going through this Medicare training and...
HIPAA in the Cloud
This week we have a client who is trying to decide whether they are going to supply mobile phones for their employees vs. having them use their own (Bringing Your Own Device, or BYOD). The question was, “We are using cloud based apps to store PHI, and there wouldn’t...
Is Skype HIPAA Compliant and Have You Updated Your BA Agreements?
This week we had an interesting discussion on Twitter about whether Skype was HIPAA Compliant or not? Well, there is a simple answer to this one, No. Wait, why not? Well, they encrypt the data stream using 256-bit encryption, it’s convenient because people are quite...