Posts Tagged ‘business associates’
Monday, June 17th, 2013
“We Can’t Afford Security and Privacy!”
Recently I was speaking to a healthcare executive (a hospital Chief Financial Officer) at a conference where I had talked in one of the sessions about the needs for information security and privacy not only for compliance reasons, but also to mitigate risks to the business. He seemed a bit short with me when he approached.
Him: “I wish (more…)
Tags:audit, awareness, BAs, breach, budget, business associates, CEs, compliance, covered entities, customer service, data protection, employees, employment, exception management, HHS, HIPAA, hiring, HITECH, HR, human resources, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, job applicants, midmarket, monitoring, non-compliance, OCR, Omnibus Rule, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PHI, PII, policies, policy exception, policy management, privacy, privacy breach, privacy laws, privacy practice, privacy professor, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, social network, SPI, subcontractors, surveillance, systems security, third parties, training, vendor management, vendors, walk through
Posted in HIPAA, Information Security, Laws & Regulations, Privacy and Compliance | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
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…)
Tags:audit, awareness, BAs, breach, business associates, CEs, compliance, covered entities, customer service, data protection, employees, employment, exception management, HHS, HIPAA, hiring, HITECH, HR, human resources, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, job applicants, midmarket, monitoring, non-compliance, OCR, Omnibus Rule, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PHI, PII, policies, policy exception, policy management, privacy, privacy breach, privacy laws, privacy practice, privacy professor, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, social network, SPI, subcontractors, surveillance, systems security, third parties, training, vendor management, vendors, walk through
Posted in BA, BA and Vendor Management, HIPAA | No Comments »
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Here’s yet another HIPAA violations penalty to add to what seems to be a quickly growing list. In this case it was a violation of the minimum necessary access principle, in addition to providing the information to reporters, who then published the information. And, it is likely based upon the required actions that go beyond the fine, that the policies, procedures, training, awareness, and access logging processes was lacking as well. (more…)
Tags:accounting of disclosures, BA, business associates, CE, covered entities, herold, HHS, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, notice of proposed rule making, NPRM, OCR, privacy, privacy breach, privacy rule, sanctions, security, security rule, UCLA
Posted in CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Laws & Regulations, Non-compliance Sanctions Examples, privacy, Privacy and Compliance, Privacy Incidents | 4 Comments »
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
I’m giving a free webinar sponsored by Sophos this coming Wednesday, June 22: “10 Risk-Reducing Actions for Mobile HIPAA/HITECH Compliance.” Here is more information about it: (more…)
Tags:awareness, business associates, compliance, covered entities, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, patient information, PHI, privacy, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, risk managements, Sophos, training, wireless security
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Laws & Regulations, mobile computing, privacy, Privacy and Compliance | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
My last blog post provided a preliminary overview of the Accounting of Disclosures Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (AD NPRM). I got a lot of questions as a result directly, in addition to the blog comments. When trying to understand regulations, and how to put them into practice within an organization, I’ve found it is best to break them down into bite-sized chunks, starting from the basics and building from there. Today I want to spend a little time looking at what makes up a “designated record set,” or DRS, since the access report requirement is specific to accesses to DRS’s… (more…)
Tags:access report, accounting of disclosures, BA, business associates, CE, Compliance Helper, covered entities, designated record set, DRS, herold, HHS, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, NCHICA, notice of proposed rule making, NPRM, privacy, privacy rule, security, security rule
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Laws & Regulations, Privacy and Compliance | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Tags:accounting of disclosures, BA, business associates, CE, covered entities, herold, HHS, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, notice of proposed rule making, NPRM, privacy, privacy rule, security, security rule
Posted in BA, CE, HIPAA, HITECH, Laws & Regulations, privacy, Privacy and Compliance | 10 Comments »
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Last week I was contacted by Corey Goodman, a reporter for HCPro, about a story he is doing that sounds like it will be quite interesting! He is collecting examples and anecdotes about “little know HIPAA facts” and asked me to contribute some for his article.
I anticipate that he will be cutting the couple of little known facts I provided to him down quite a bit, so I wanted to provide them here not only as a future reference for myself, but also for those of you who may be interested!
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Tags:awareness and training, business associates, HCPro, HIPAA, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, privacy, risk management, security awareness, security training, Wal-Mart
Posted in Privacy and Compliance, Privacy Incidents | No Comments »
