Archive for August, 2011

SHORT Survey For HIPAA Compliance Activity Benchmarking

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Those of you who work for healthcare providers… (more…)

HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Is All or Nothing

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

I’m seeing growing numbers of  business associates, particularly those who do technology-based services, expressing the belief that they don’t need to worry about complying with most of HIPAA.  I wrote a guest blog post for Credant about this misguided thinking that was published today.  I welcome your feedback!

KPMG HIPAA Auditor Caused a Data Breach

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

A KPMG auditor caused a breach for New Jersey hospitals because he or she lost an unencrypted flash drive containing over 4,500 patient records. (more…)