by Gary Pritts | Feb 29, 2012 | HIPAA
Virtually everyone has a home wi-fi network. It provides convenient access for laptops, smartphones, tablets and gaming devices. How do you protect yourself? Administration Account. The first step is to secure the administration account for your wireless router or... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 23, 2012 | HIPAA, HIPAA Policy Templates
Last month Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit against Accretive Health, Inc., a company which provides revenue cycle management services for two Minnesota Health Systems – Fairview Health Services and North Memorial Health Care. According to the... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 17, 2012 | HIPAA
Adam Greene, JD, MPH, a former regulator in HHS, recently shared details about the random audit program begun by the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The audit targets are selected using stratified random samples based on a database of covered entities created by OCR... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jan 15, 2012 | HIPAA
An industry-standard feature on wireless routers marketed to consumers and small businesses, Wi Fi Protected Setup (WPS), is vulnerable to a simple “brute force” attack. Free tools are already available to gain access to these routers. Making matters... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Dec 14, 2011 | HIPAA
EHR Authors and Value Added Resellers (VARs) will soon have their own HIPAA obligations. At present, EHR Authors and VARs are contractually obligated by the terms of any HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) they have signed. Soon, EHR Authors and VARs (and all... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Dec 7, 2011 | HIPAA
Facebook, and other Social Media including Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and others are a reality of mainstream society. Employers in general, including HIPAA covered entities, are grappling with this new reality. On the one hand, social media have been proven to be a... Read More