by Gary Pritts | May 5, 2011 | HIPAA
Reporting from Beijing, China. Microsoft is hurrying to fix a significant problem with windows at its Beijing facility. Recently, Microsoft constructed a new, dual-tower facility in the Haidian district of Beijing to consolidate its 3000 software engineers here in... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Apr 7, 2011 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, HIPAA
Hospitals, physician practices, government agencies, business associates and others who must comply with the HIPAA Security regulations should dust off the previous HIPAA Security Risk Analysis and update it for 2011. Hospitals and Physician practices qualifying for... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Apr 4, 2011 | HIPAA
(Editor’s Notes: 5/23/2018: Over the last 7 years, this program has morphed annually, although this post remains relevant. The Meaningful Use program is now called “Promoting Interoperability”. 10/1/2016: The scope of the Security Risk Analysis... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 22, 2011 | HIPAA
Fresh news from the National HIPAA Summit, held March 9-11 in Washington DC, is that the HHS Office of Civil Rights has scheduled “HIPAA Enforcement Training” for State Attorneys General. Susan McAndrew, OCR’s Deputy Director for Health Information... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 25, 2011 | HIPAA
With reports about multi-million dollar HIPAA fines in the news for the first time, and discussion of stiff new HIPAA penalties from the HITECH Act, administrators and physicians are asking about the new enforcement activities. Recently, a small organization was hit... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Feb 24, 2011 | HIPAA
The Obama Administration continues to accelerate its enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. This month saw two additional $1M+ fines. On February 4, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its first-ever Civil Monetary... Read More