Posts Tagged ‘PwC’

Business Info Fact Of The Day: Financial Companies Need To Improve Security

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The latest PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) information information security results show that financial companies are still not doing enough for information security and privacy. Here are a few of the findings:

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CMS Announces Plans To Actively Audit Hospitals For HIPAA Compliance

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that they plan to audit 10 – 20 hospitals for HIPAA compliance in the next 9 months according to a Government Health IT article.

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CMS Hires A Fox To Guard The HIPAA Henhouse

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I just read a very interesting article, “CMS’ HIPAA watchdog presents potential conflict” that made me go Hmmm!!
The genesis of the article is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that is responsible for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight and compliance enforcement, has contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to perform HIPAA Security Rule compliance audits during 2008.

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