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Step-by-Step: Establishing a BAA with Google for HIPAA
Are you using Google services to store or process protected health information (PHI)? If so, establishing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Google is crucial to ensure your organization...
HIPAA Compliant efax Provider Recommendations
Many HIPAA compliant organizations need to send and receive electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) on a regular basis. HIPAA requires you to secure information at rest, in transit, and in...
Most Popular HIPAA Compliant File Sharing Apps
HIPAA compliant file sharing apps are necessary if your company is dealing with personal health data. File sharing is a critical tool used by businesses and healthcare providers to easily share,...
Stop PHI from Being Stolen
The Total HIPAA blog to-date has focused on strategies to protect your clients’/patients’ information, but we’re ...
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 ...
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 ...
You Have a HIPAA Breach!
These few words make everyone’s heart sink. You’ve trained your employees, instituted Privacy and Security ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guest Blog from GRA: Have there been HIPAA breaches by insurance agencies?
This week, I’m off singing at the Newport Music Festival.
On to the blog of the week from our partner GRA ...
Question: Why do I have to train all my IT Staff on HIPAA?
I hope everyone had a happy and healthy 4th of July! Last week, I received this question from one of our clients. ...
Analysis of the Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured PHI
For Calendar Years 2011 and 2012
Just released, the original report is pretty long, and well, let’s face it, a ...
Guest Blog: When Was Your Last HIPAA Training?
This week, we are posting a guest blog from our friends over at GRA. They are one of our preferred partners and ...
Total HIPAA Compliance Releases HIPAA WorkForce Training for Agents, Employers, and Business Associates
Total HIPAA Compliance (www.TotalHIPAA.com) announces the release of WorkForce training for three markets – ...
Choosing a HIPAA Information Security Officer
Last week we addressed what a company needs to think about before appointing a Privacy Officer. Now we address the ...
Qualifications for a HIPAA Privacy Officer
This week I had a client ask me for a list of qualifications for a Privacy Officer. This seemed like a nice blog ...
Password Management Programs and HIPAA
This question has come up multiple times over the past few weeks, especially with the HeartBleed issue a few weeks ...
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 ...
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 ...
Heartbleed and HIPAA
On April 7th, the news hit the wire that there is a serious bug in the OpenSSL program - one of the most popular ...
Is it a breach, or not?
This week we had an interesting question come in. One of our clients was copied by a general agent in a response ...
Happy Spring!
We’ve been having some lovely spots of weather here, well minus ice, and a Nor’easter is projected this week… It ...
HIPAA and Your Contract Employees
This week we are dealing with contract employees or independent contractors, either of which are usually paid by ...
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