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7 Reasons You Need Annual HIPAA Retraining
The HIPAA Law states that Covered Entities, Business Associates and Business Associate Subcontractors must train all its workforce members on HIPAA.1 The Law doesn’t give us ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

7 Steps to Take When You Have a HIPAA Complaint
We’ve gotten a few calls about this issue. This is a continuation of our blog from 2 weeks ago. What do you do when a client/patient contacts you about improper use of their ...

Another HIPAA Deadline Approaches-Business Associate Agreements
If you’ve been reading my blogs over the past year, you already know that you have to have Business Associate Agreements, or Business Associate Subcontractor Agreements* in ...

You Have a HIPAA Breach!
These few words make everyone’s heart sink. You’ve trained your employees, instituted Privacy and Security Policies and Procedures, set up all your security measures, and yet ...

Using HIPAA Guidelines to Protect Your Personal Information
Community Health Systems Inc. (CYH.N), one of the biggest U.S. hospital groups, said on Monday it was the victim of a cyber attack from China, resulting in the theft of ...

Guest Blog: Maintaining HIPAA Compliance with Dropbox
I am still traveling this week, and we are running another guest blog. This is from our friends at Sookasa. They have a great, HIPAA compliant file sharing service. On to the ...
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Is Gmail HIPAA Compliant?
Gmail is not automatically HIPAA compliant, however, you can implement security measures…
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Free Download: HIPAA 101
How well do you meet basic HIPAA regulations? Our HIPAA Compliance 101 resource outlines the key…
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How to Use HIPAA to Defend Against Common Cybersecurity Attacks
While much of the anti-malware technology we have to protect us from hackers has become…
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Free Webinar: Annual HIPAA Requirements & Security Standards
In this webinar, we discussed annual HIPAA requirements, document review, and the compliance…
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