Articles by: Gary Pritts
Gary consults in the areas of physician practice management, medical information systems, HIPAA compliance, health and productivity management and general business management. Gary serves on the board of Lakewood Hospital, one of the Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals, and is a founder and past president of eHealth Ohio, and is active with numerous professional organizations. He served as product development manager for the EDI clearinghouse division of Quadax, a regional clearinghouse, and understands provider organizations from his 6 years as President and owner of Premier Rehab, a Medicare Certified Rehab agency with two Cleveland locations. His computer background includes 15 years in various computer and computer service organizations. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2018 | Business Associates & Others, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, Large Providers, Physician Practices
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published its Guidance titled “Guidance on Software Vulnerabilities and Patching”, in its June 2018 newsletter. In this Guidance, OCR stated that “identifying and mitigating the...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 24, 2018 | Business Associates & Others, General News, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, Large Providers, Physician Practices, Threat Intelligence
A key component of any risk analysis and risk management program is understanding who the threats to your organization’s data are — both outside actors and insiders. Often, when we are working with administrators or practice managers who don’t have a...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 16, 2018 | Business Associates & Others
Entities who are Business Associates need a model BAA to use with their customers, and may also have subcontractors for which a BAA is also needed. Should you use the same agreement? Probably not! Eagle recently updated the model BAA included in our various HIPAA...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 16, 2018 | General News, Large Providers, Threat Intelligence
Ransomware remains a threat to governments all across the country. There have even been a litany of attacks in our state of Ohio: the Licking County government, the Columbiana County courts, townships in Clinton and Morrow counties, the Mad River Township Fire and...
by Gary Pritts | Jun 28, 2018 | Business Associates & Others, Large Providers, Physician Practices
GDPR is the European Union’s new data protection regulation that went into effect on May 25, 2018. It is the most comprehensive data protection regulation in the world. Of course, healthcare data is regulated by GDPR. If you do not do business in the EU,...
