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
by Gary Pritts | Dec 6, 2011 | HIPAA
The Joint Commission (JCAHO) weighed in recently regarding the issue of physicians using text messages to transmit orders. They didn’t explicitly state that their opinion was related to the HIPAA regulations, but we infer that HIPAA was part of the thought... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Nov 18, 2011 | HIPAA
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, the agency’s watchdog, has released its annual work plan. It is 117 pages specify hundreds of work items reviewing every nook and cranny of the health system. Medicare and Medicaid... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Nov 9, 2011 | HIPAA
The random HIPAA compliance audits mandated under the HITECH Act will begin this month. Yesterday, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that every covered entity and business associate is eligible for an audit. To guide future audit efforts, a wide range of... Read More
Eagle works with clients in healthcare and healthcare business associates to ensure HIPAA Security compliance. We provide a set of policy templates for a variety of business associate types including Cloud Vendors, Third Party Administrators, and Information Technology companies.