Archive for March, 2013
Saturday, March 30th, 2013
Locate it to protect it
I love speaking with folks about privacy, information security and compliance. I am sincerely interested in hearing about their challenges, and then also identifying common challenges amongst them all. We can then get to solutions.
One of the consistently common challenges I’ve heard from privacy and security folks in the past several months is trying to (more…)
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Posted in Information Security, PHI | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Don’t tell me it depends! Well, sorry, but…
I’ve been involved in several interesting discussions (some with lawyers, some with security folks, some with privacy folks, and a few of the folks wearing all three hats) about the liability of organizations that outsource business processing. Since January 17 I’ve also been working on a wide range of documentation changes to reflect the recently released 563 page tome that is the Final HIPAA Omnibus Rule. A significant part of the documentation and writing involves discussion of the increased liability a covered entity (CE) now has for the bad practices and mistakes made by their business associates (BAs).
Organizations want a clear cut answer to “how liable” they are for the actions of their outsourced entities. One CISO at a conference demanded, “Just tell me; are we going to be held responsible for the actions of our business associates or not? Just (more…)
Tags:audit, awareness, BA, BA Agreement, BA contract, breach, business associate, compliance, customers, data protection, e-mail, electronic mail, email, employees, employment, exception management, HIPAA, hiring, HITECH, HR, human resources, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, job applicants, laws, liability, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, Omnibus Rule, patients, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PII, policies, policy exception, policy management, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, training, vendor management, vendor oversight, walk through
Posted in BA, BA and Vendor Management, CE, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Laws & Regulations | 1 Comment »
