3 Reasons Insurance Agents Need to Follow HIPAA
Health insurance agents became covered under HIPAA with the HITECH Act of 2009. The inclusion of insurance agents was a response to the increasing use of electronic health records and the need to safeguard patients’ medical information. Besides the moral and...
Deadline to Report 2023 Small Breaches to Health and Human Services (HHS)
HIPAA breaches affecting less than 500 individuals in 2023 must be reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services by March 1, 2024 An organization has two options when reporting: Report these small breaches to HHS as they occur, or Collect the details of...
Microsoft End of Support for 2023
Each year, we publish Microsoft’s End of Support list because using up-to-date software is essential for HIPAA compliance. Microsoft will terminate support for earlier versions of a long list of its products throughout 2023. This means Microsoft will no longer release...
Top 10 Total HIPAA Blog Posts of 2022
Throughout 2022, Total HIPAA has focused on providing information that will keep your organization HIPAA compliant and secure by blogging on relevant topics that matter. This is our last blog of 2022. It includes a list of our most visited and cited blogs this year....