by Gary Pritts | Jul 30, 2014 | CMS Quality Payment Programs
(Editor’s Note: For the Stage 2 Rules effective 10/16/2015, the Privacy and Security Objective is now Objective #1) Eagle Consulting Partners is working with three clients, participants in the Medicare Meaningful Use program, to assist them with responses to...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of cyber-espionage have shown consistent, significant growth and display a wider variety of threat actions than any other pattern discovered in Verizon’s recent 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed of over 63,000 confirmed security...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 26, 2014 | HIPAA
The HIPAA Omnibus/Final Rule, published on January 25, 2013, grandfathered valid HIPAA Business Associate agreements prior to that date until September 22, 2014. That grace period is rapidly coming to an end. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 23, 2014 | HIPAA
AccessHealthCT, the health insurance exchange in Connecticut, announced that an employee of a contractor left a backpack containing the protected health information of 400 of the state’s residents on the street. The information left behind was written on a notepad and...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 21, 2014 | HIPAA
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments for a criminal ring involving individuals working at multiple facilities in Alabama. Other individuals in the fraud ring were former employees of a hospital located on Ft. Benning Army base. The ring allegedly used...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 17, 2014 | HIPAA
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report categorized 63,000 security incidents from 95 countries into 9 categories of causes. For the healthcare organizations surveyed, just 3 of those categories accounted for 73% of the security incidents experience—Theft and...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 11, 2014 | HIPAA
Many healthcare organizations remain unaware that the Heartbleed bug can affect more than just websites and web servers. The bug, discovered separately by Neel Mehta and his team from Google Security in late March and later by Finnish security firm Codenomicon in...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 3, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS Report of Breaches, 2011-2012, Part #2 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently submitted their Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI), for the calendar years 2011-2012. We blogged previously...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 2, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS Report of Breaches, 2011-2012, Part #1 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted their Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI), for the calendar years 2011-2012. Theft and loss of computing...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 1, 2014 | HIPAA
Recently confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell has named Jocelyn Samuels as director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In this role, her duties also include enforcement of the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification...
