HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Hospitals, for example, have increasingly been the target of malware and ransomware attacks. This past August, Prospect Medical Holdings took its main computer network offline after an incident affecting 16 hospitals and over 100 other medical facilities across the U.S.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Due Diligence Regulatory Compliance Compliance 117

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2022

This point has been reinforced through several subsequent HHS publications – most notably a recent Fact Sheet that answers questions about ransomware and whether or not a ransomware attack is a reportable breach under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Privacy Rule HIPAA Safeguards.

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HIPAA Due Diligence Ransomware Compliance 105

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Twenty years ago, seeing the records department pushing a cart full of paper records was normal on a hospital unit. Unfortunately, hospitals and clinics across the country today are constantly changing their Health Information Systems (HIS), creating huge gaps in the data available from disparate legacy systems. Remember Paper Files?

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Due Diligence Compliance HIPAA Nurses 98