HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2022

Requirements to implement HIPAA safeguards appear more often in the text of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act than is often acknowledged. There is also a section relating to the Organization Requirements of the Privacy and Security Rules – both of which include further HIPAA safeguards.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 12, 2023

Vendor due diligence is key in preventing these third-party data breaches. Vendor Due Diligence – What is It & Why is it Important? Vendor due diligence is the process of assessing the security and risk management practices of third-party vendors before engaging in a business relationship with them.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Discussing HIPAA compliance for hospitals in a single article is challenging. This means there is no one-size-fits-all guide to HIPAA compliance for hospitals, but rather checklists that can help hospitals cover the basics of the compliance requirements. What is Required to Comply with HIPAA?

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 25, 2024

A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist is one essential tool that can help organizations in their quest for compliance. What is a Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist? A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist outlines the steps and processes to ensure organizational compliance.

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Total HIPAA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, the urgency for entities in the healthcare sector to initiate or reinforce their HIPAA compliance cannot be overstated. Prove Your Due Diligence The decision to postpone setting up comprehensive policies, procedures, and HIPAA training could be detrimental.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrew Mahler, JD, CIPP/US, AIGP, CHC, CHPC, CHRC , Vice President of Privacy, Compliance Services at Clearwater When the healthcare information ecosystem operates as it should, it mirrors a healthy circulatory system. But even the strongest heart cant thrive in a compromised body.A No entity is exempt.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2025

The following is a guest article by David Lindner, Chief Information Security and Data Privacy Officer at Contrast Security Healthcare organizations face a complex balancing act when integrating AI, navigating the promise of significant benefits alongside inherent risks. Its that same data protection mindset they need to apply when using AI.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 5, 2023

If your HIPAA-covered organization is planning to use Microsoft Teams to collect, store, share, or transmit electronic PHI, it is important to know how to make Microsoft Teams HIPAA compliant. How to Make Microsoft Teams HIPAA Compliant No software is HIPAA compliant.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 21, 2024

A HIPAA Security Rule checklist helps covered entities, business associates, and other organizations subject to HIPAA compliance to fulfil the requirements of the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (better known as the HIPAA Security Rule).

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HIPAA Compliance Due Diligence Medicare 78

Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2023

Make Sure You’re HIPAA Compliant HIPAA compliance protects you against breaches. Protect your business by becoming HIPAA compliant today! Become HIPAA Compliant × Get HIPAA Compliant! Lee credited HIPAA rules and regulations as the reason for more transparency in healthcare breach reporting.

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HIPAA Electronic Medical Records Due Diligence Compliance 119

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 15, 2023

The United States Department of Justice has agreed to settle alleged False Claims Act violations with Jelly Bean Communications Design LLC and manager Jeremy Spinks related to the failure to protect HIPAA-covered data. Further, the website did not maintain audit logs showing who had accessed the personal information of applicants.

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Total HIPAA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That could include things like requiring a password manager, multi-factor (MFA) authentication, and taking HIPAA training every year. Since publication of these incidents is required, it is less and less possible to claim ignorance to the importance of being HIPAA compliant.

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C&M Health Law

JUNE 15, 2021

For any company interacting with large sets and various streams of information, this can represent a significant exposure to risk. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can present several areas of exposure. Since the first investigation under the U.S. FCPA concerning a third party acting on behalf of a U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2023

Securely sharing patient information is vital in the United States where healthcare organizations and their business associates are required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state laws governing health information privacy.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 18, 2022

A small breach can be a simple release of information (ROI) process error involving a patient’s protected health information (PHI). Most of those disclosure points occur outside the health information management (HIM) department in areas where individuals are not trained in PHI disclosure management.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the paper, the HHS indicated it will be adopting a carrot-and-stick approach by developing voluntary Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector Cybersecurity Goals (CPGs) that consist of cybersecurity measures that will have the greatest impact on security along with an update to the HIPAA Security Rule to add new cybersecurity requirements.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 24, 2022

When a covered entity or business associate makes the HIPAA Wall of Shame for a significant breach or violation, it often results in huge fines. In some cases, the breaches and resulting fines resulted from organizations knowingly violating HIPAA regulations and just hoping they wouldn’t get caught.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website. This page is regularly updated to reflect the latest healthcare data breach statistics.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 29, 2022

One of the trendy marketing terms being used by equipment and service providers in the security space is “HIPAA Compliant Environment.” All of these tools are very useful to ensure privacy and security in the use, storage, and transmission of protected health information (PHI). People send billing information to the wrong patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2024

We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Most sources of information answering the question when can PHI be disclosed refer to the standards of the HIPAA Privacy Rule that specify the required and permissible uses and discloses of PHI, and those that require the consent or authorization of the individual (§164.502 – §164.514). The Opportunity to Agree or Object.

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Total HIPAA

JULY 30, 2024

HIPAA Compliance and Online Tracking Technologies The U.S. These pages often contain or link to personal health information (PHI), making the security and privacy stakes exceptionally high. Unauthenticated web pages, such as marketing or general health information websites, do not require user log-ins.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A HIPAA security risk assessment is suitable for assessing healthcare vendor compliance. These requirements should outline the security controls the vendor must have to protect sensitive information. One such contract is a HIPAA business associate agreement (BAA). One such contract is a HIPAA business associate agreement (BAA).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As major investments in health tech companies show, APIs will be the future of health information exchange (HIE). But if healthcare organizations do not take an industry-specific approach to API adoption, collective efforts to relieve the healthcare system of high administrative costs and information silos may suffer a setback.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2023

This is not necessarily a bad thing because – around the same time – the passage of HIPAA introduced fraud controls and transaction standards that made it harder for healthcare providers to defraud or abuse the system. With regard to enforcing standards, it is important that sanctions are applied fairly.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 26, 2023

The HIPAA Administrative Simplification Regulations apply to group health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare providers that transmit health information electronically in connection with a transaction for which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has adopted standards (i.e.,

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Compliance HIPAA Due Diligence 64

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is exercising its enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for noncompliance with HIPAA and the HITECH Act as it relates to “good faith” implementations of remote technologies used to provide telehealth. While the U.S. Enhancing your vendor risk management.

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YouCompli

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Compliance officers also should partner with their Information Technology (IT) and risk management departments to ensure their organizations protect patient privacy and minimize security risks. GFC Global focuses on the potential for website hacking and the sale of patient information. Once acknowledged, you can access their videos.

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American Medical Compliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey from 2020, seventy percent of hospitals had suffered from a security incident. Third, due diligence with partners is essential to prevent attacks. Visit [link] for more information. Get Certified. Healthcare IT News (2022, November 23).

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

JULY 6, 2023

In a digital era where personal information is vulnerable to cyber threats, privacy protection has become more critical than ever. The guards lacked an employment-related reason for accessing the information. Emphasize the importance of handling sensitive information securely and remind employees of their legal and ethical obligations.

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 5, 2023

Government contractors, such as Jelly Bean, are expected “to do the due diligence to keep software applications updated and secure” to ensure the “safeguarding [of] patients’ medical and other personal information.” FHKC shut down its website’s application portal shortly thereafter.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

It should also comply with relevant regulations — such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — to ensure the protection of sensitive provider and patient information. Customers say that, on average, MedTrainer speeds up credentialing by three weeks — per provider! Schedule a demo today and see for yourself!

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Malpractice Compliance Licensing Due Diligence 97

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A lack of regulatory compliance, network and technical vulnerabilities, unencrypted information, unsecured mobile devices, and weak credentials all play a part in putting a healthcare organization at risk for a data breach. Self-attestations or self-audits should be a red flag to any organization that processes confidential information.

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AIHC

JUNE 6, 2023

Due-diligence is necessary to ensure their system has been tested, is compliant to government and payer standards and is affordable moving forward as AI evolves and our system or contract service with the company advances. The vulnerability was in the Redis memory database, which OpenAI uses to store user information.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Tool is a result of collaborative efforts between the FTC, HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) and the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”).

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Information Security Policies Review and update your information security policies to ensure they align with SOC 2 requirements. Reporting and Communication Establish effective channels for reporting security incidents, communicating risks, and keeping stakeholders informed about security status.

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