by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2014 | HIPAA
At HIMSS 2014, James Robnet, IRS Special Agent in charge of the IRS Tampa, FL field office, presented an update regarding IRS tax fraud and how fraudsters present data breach risks to hospitals, physicians and other health providers. When conducting a meaningful use... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 11, 2014 | HIPAA
HIPAA Compliance among items to be scrutinized in upcoming HRSA Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Audits At the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) Annual Conference today, Jacki Leifer of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell presented about... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 10, 2014 | HIPAA
Evaluating the Potential Impact of a HIPAA Security Breach in Your Risk Analysis HIMSS 2014 included multiple presentations and updates regarding breach risk. Attorney Tatiana Melnik of Melnik Legal presented an update on civil actions which provides important... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 6, 2014 | HIPAA
“Top 20 Critical Security Controls” began in 2008 as an effort by U.S. and international agencies, including our own NSA, which has been the subject of so much media attention recently. Eventually, recommendations for what became the “Critical Security Controls”... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 27, 2014 | HIPAA
One item in the OIG 2014 Work Plan is to examine the controls over networked medical devices. That’s right. Yet another government entity, the OIG, plans to scrutinize hospital IT / Biomedical security. The OIG indicates that biomedical equipment is “increasingly... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 24, 2014 | HIPAA
There has been quite a bit of activity from the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) related to health information privacy. Consumers and medical providers should take note of the following: A Spanish version of the Model Notices of Privacy Practices (NPP) has been issued... Read More
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