Posts Tagged ‘herold’
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
The final HIPAA “mega rule” is going to be officially published on the Federal Register tomorrow, January 25, 2013. Currently the version available (https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2013-01073.pdf) is “pre-publication” version.
Over the past week I’ve had numerous CEs and BAs contacting me, frantic to change their BA Agreements to “avoid complying with the Mega Rule for another year!” Wait, folks. You are misunderstanding; this is a very specific extension that only applies to the BA Agreements. Let me explain… (more…)
Tags:BA, BA Agreement, business associate, compliance, Compliance Helper, covered entity, federal register, Final Rule, healthcare, herold, HHS, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Mega Rule, OCR, privacy, privacy professor, Rebecca Herold, security
Posted in BA, CE, HIPAA, HITECH | 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 »
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
A couple of days ago I published my monthly Privacy Professor Tips message, “Summer Break-in.” I provide these tips free to anyone who wants to sign up for it on my web site and fills out one of the boxes that says, (more…)
Tags:awareness, breach, compliance, GLBA, herold, HIPAA, HITECH, incident, Information Security, privacy, privacy professor, privacy training, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk management, security training, training
Posted in Information Security, Laws & Regulations, privacy, Privacy and Compliance, Training & awareness | No Comments »
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 »
