Last week one of my Compliance Helper clients that is a health insurance company asked me the following question (slightly modified to protect their identity):
For the past two years, we have tried to get business associate (BA) Agreements from some of our BAs. They will not (more…)
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I’m getting a lot of déjà vu vibes lately with the old-ish Bruce Willis movie with the catch phrase “I see dead people.” (Remember that?) Only my twist on this phrase for the past few years is, “I see business associates.” A big problem is that (more…)
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A new data breach research report is out, and it is a good read. This is the annual Experian/Ponemon Institute “Is Your Company Ready for a Big Data Breach?” report. I want to focus on one of the findings in that report; that most organizations are not willing to assist those affected by a breach of their personal information. (more…)
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