Is an Audit Trail Enough For HIPAA Compliance?
A client posed this question, and I decided it would be a great opportunity to clarify how you communicate securely with your clients when using encrypted email and the like. When reviewing the capabilities of a file-sharing program with a client, they stated they met...
California and a Whole Lot of Breaching Going On
In 2013, the California healthcare sector had a bad year! They were responsible for 15% of the breaches by industry and 6% of the total number of records breached… 6%, that’s not so bad for total numbers, right? I mean the retail sector had 15.6 million records...
Guest Blog: Meet the HIPAA Police
This is another great guest blog from our friends at GRA Benefits: The HIPAA police, a.k.a. the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are happy to meet you if you do any one or more of the following things: Do not encrypt your email Let a hacker access your...
Stop PHI from Being Stolen
The Total HIPAA blog to-date has focused on strategies to protect your clients’/patients’ information, but we’re going to change it up this week. We recently came across a white paper from the Ponemon Institute. They reported there were over 1.8 million victims of...