The HHS released HITECH Act Enforcement Interim Final Rule today…
Archive for October, 2009
CEs and BAs: Be HIPAA/HITECH Compliant Or Pay A Hefty Penalty
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Smart Grid Privacy: Laws and Implications
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009I was recently asked several questions about my work with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group and associated issues. Here are a couple of those questions, and my answers to them…
6 Critical Factors for Effective Information Security & Privacy Policies
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009I’ve been feeling bad about not posting to my blog as often as I have historically…
Who Are Your Business Associates?
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Since just before HIPAA went actively into effect I’ve done a lot of HIPAA compliance work for covered entities (CEs). In the past few years I’ve done around 200 business associate (BA) information security and program reviews for just one CE, and these don’t even scratch the surface for how many BAs each CE has…
HIPAA/HITECH Etc. Retention: Does Your Reality = Your Requirements?
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Last month I had the great pleasure of being a guest on Scott Draughon and Anyck Turgeon’s MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show for a segment entitled, “Is encryption enough to achieve privacy?”
I was pleasantly surprised to see a large number of great follow-up questions following the show!
I covered one of them in my post, “Don’t Throw Your Privacy Out The Window; Know How Your PII Is Used” Here are a couple more of those many questions I want to answer in this post…
Proposed HIPAA Privacy Rule Change Explicitly Makes Genetic Info PHI
Friday, October 2nd, 2009An important element of data protection compliance is knowing, identifying and inventorying the applicable information…
