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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...
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...
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...
Real World Cost of a HIPAA Breach
When we talk about HIPAA compliance much of the emphasis is on avoiding Office of Civil Rights (OCR) fines and ...
A Real World Breach – Why HIPAA Compliance Matters
Developing and implementing a HIPAA compliance plan can often seem like preparing for a tornado on a sunny day. ...
The Value of Healthcare Data
The rising number of healthcare hacks demonstrates that healthcare data has tremendous value in the wrong hands. ...
It’s Time to Report Small Breaches – Don’t Miss the Deadline
HIPAA breaches involving less than 500 individuals during the calendar year 2015 must be reported to the U.S. ...
What is a Zero-Day Security Flaw?
As you have been developing, updating and improving your HIPAA Security Plan, you have probably come across the ...
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Internet Explorer NOW and Forever
Upgrading software is a pain! Updates seem to pop up at the most inopportune time. You have to budget time to ...
Infographic: 9 Important Items Disaster Recovery Plans Should Include
Reading through pages of HIPAA articles and advice about disaster recovery plans can be daunting.
Here's an ...
HIPAA Compliance Must Be Updated As Technology Evolves
The HIPAA Security Rule was enacted in 2003. Since then, there have been two major changes to the Rule, first in ...
Business Associates Must Take HIPAA Compliance Seriously
As part of the HIPAA Omnibus ruling in 2013 Business Associates (BAs) of Covered Entities are required to comply ...
Help Employees Support Your HIPAA Security Efforts
Studies show that the weakest link in HIPAA security is employee compliance and it’s no wonder, their day is ...
Protect Your Business from Disaster with HIPAA
10 years ago Hurricane Katrina destroyed southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
Annual hurricane season is just ...
HIPAA Compliant Email Encryption Review
Does HIPAA require your company to implement encryption?1 Yes, and No. Simply put, the law doesn’t require ...
Infographic: Do You Know the Top 10 HIPAA Violations?
Over the past week, we've discussed some of the most common HIPAA violations you should look out for. In the first ...
The Top 10 HIPAA Violations and How to Prevent Them (Part 2)
Here is the second part of our 2 part series we did for NeuMD. If you would like to see the original article, you ...
The Top 10 HIPAA Violations and How to Prevent Them
This is a guest post we did for our friends over at NeuMD. You can see the original article here
Wouldn’t it ...
7 Reasons For Implementation of Annual HIPAA Retraining
Annual HIPAA training and retraining is a necessary step for your business to become and maintain HIPAA compliance ...
Seven Steps to Take When You Have A HIPAA Complaint
Seven Steps to Take When You have A HIPAA Compliant from Jason Karn
How to Manage a HIPAA Breach
Last week we covered performing a HIPAA Risk Assessment, and also did a webinar on electronic devices. Needless to ...
HIPAA Risk Assessment – Is this required?
Risk Assessment - Is this required?
Yes, performing a Risk Assessment is required by HHS1. If you are audited, ...
Choosing Your HIPAA Security Officer
Last week we addressed what a practice or billing company needs to take into account when choosing their HIPAA ...
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