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Preserving Patient Confidentiality: Prioritizing Security in Healthcare Facilities

Preserving Patient Confidentiality: Prioritizing Security in Healthcare Facilities

Security is crucial for hospitals and doctors' offices to protect sensitive patient information. In this blog post, we'll explore the significance of physical and network security. The Impact of...

How to Fail a HIPAA Audit as an Employer

How to Fail a HIPAA Audit as an Employer

Are you implementing a self-funded or level-funded health plan for your company? Ensuring HIPAA compliance is essential, especially considering that such plans serving over 50 lives are considered covered entities. In this article, we highlight three common pitfalls to avoid in your HIPAA compliance plan, including the importance of customized policies, the need for a Compliance Officer and accurate risk assessment, and fostering a culture of privacy awareness among staff. Partnering with Total HIPAA can help mitigate risks and ensure a successful audit. Book a demo today to enhance your compliance approach.

Navigating New Horizons: 2023 HIPAA Rule Changes and PHI

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) has evolved over the years to adapt to advancements in healthcare and technology. The 2013 HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule expanded its scope,...

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Employees Are Your Biggest HIPAA Vulnerability

Employees Are Your Biggest HIPAA Vulnerability

While 2015 was accurately dubbed “The Year of the Healthcare Hack”, according to Experian’s 2016 Data Breach ...

Real World Cost of a HIPAA Breach

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

A Real World Breach – Why HIPAA Compliance Matters

By Tessa Kroninger

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 Value of Healthcare Data

By Tessa Kroninger

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

It’s Time to Report Small Breaches – Don’t Miss the Deadline

By Tessa Kroninger

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?

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

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

Infographic: 9 Important Items Disaster Recovery Plans Should Include

By jason@totalhipaa.com

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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)

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

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

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?

HIPAA Risk Assessment – Is this required?

Risk Assessment - Is this required? Yes, performing a Risk Assessment is required by HHS1. If you are audited, ...

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