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Under the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule, business associate agreements (BAA) are required more often. But do you know how often? This is crucial to know...
The deadline is approaching for health care providers to comply with the updated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which specifically addresses medical...
People make mistakes and the results can be catastrophic. A new study by the Ponemon Institute and Symantec now tells us employee error is...
In today’s data driven world, most security experts agree that when it comes to data breaches, most businesses need to recognize it’s not a...
No matter how popular or successful a brand is, recent data breaches occurring at several well-known consumer and social networking sites have demonstrated that...
Backed by the momentum created by the signing of President Obama’s Executive Order earlier this year regarding the U.S. national cyber security policies, the...
With over 870,000 medical records exposed in data breaches in just the first quarter of 2013, medical data breaches have become a source of...
The 17th annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute Conference took place in National Harbor, MD and was attended by healthcare personnel and...
Outsourcing can be risky business. The Ponemon Institute reports that 65% of companies who outsourced work to a vendor have had a data breach...
By now you are aware that the much anticipated final ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding regulations implementing the...
Healthcare data breaches will be treated much differently under the new HIPAA Omnibus rule. But do you know how? Find out in the latest...
The recently released 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Security Survey reports a notable increase in security measures undertaken by U.S.hospitals to...