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…)
Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA’
10 Risk-Reducing Actions for Mobile HIPAA/HITECH Compliance
Sunday, June 19th, 2011Don’t Let School Break Be A Privacy Break-In!
Friday, June 3rd, 2011A 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…)
Designated Record Sets: Know What They Are! (AD NPRM Discussion #1)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011My 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…)
Preliminary Thoughts about the HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures NPRM
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011On Friday, May 27, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM). I’m still going through it but here are my preliminary thoughts… (more…)
Health Net Incident Impacting 1.9 Million: Lessons Learned
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Yesterday I provided some thoughts to Howard Anderson at HealthinfoSecurity.com about the recent Health Net incident for his article. Here are some expanded thoughts for his questions…
Legal Requirements for Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011Earlier today following my online seminar, “Effective Training and Awareness: The Key to Information Security Success” (http://gocsi.com/Training2011/OD/Awareness), I received the following question:
Where might I locate a summary breakdown of training regulations by industry? i.e. Pharma
Yes, Automating Compliance Activities Can Improve Security…If Done Correctly!
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011I participate in the Focus network and tried to answer the following question from “Caty” on their discussion board:
“How can compliance automation help secure my organization’s IT infrastructure?” Please describe the benefits of compliance automation and discuss how it can be used to secure an organization’s IT infrastructure.
However, after trying to submit my response in around half a dozen ways, I was told my answer was too long. Instead of shaving off some of my content, I decided to post here to my blog, and then point to here from there. Perhaps my other blog readers will be interested in my thoughts on this topic as well.
So, here is my answer… (more…)
HIPAA Compliance Investigations And The Insider Threat
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011I’ve been getting a lot more questions about HIPAA and HITECH lately from folks I’ve never met, but who have concerns about the security and privacy of their health information (“protected health information” or “PHI” as referenced within HIPAA/HITECH), businesses that are trying to understand how to protect PHI according to the regulatory requirements, and a growing number who express frustration with the unsecure ways in which clients, customers, patients and business partners are sharing information with them. There just are not enough hours in the day to answer them all, but I decided I’d start sharing some of the questions, and my corresponding answers, that seem to be topics that a wide range of readers may be interested in.
I was recently contacted by someone who had a question about a recent HIPAA complaint against Rowan Regional Medical Center (more…)
HIPAA/HITECH Final Rule Set To Be Published in March
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011On December 20, 2010, the U.S. federal government published “Part II: Regulatory Information Service Center: Introduction to The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.” If you are a healthcare Covered Entity (CE), Business Associate (BA) or BA subcontractor, as defined under HIPAA and HITECH, this should be of interest to you. Why? Because within it is the long-awaited Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) timeline for when they would publish the final rule of the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) that came out in July, 2010. The date? Well, (more…)
