by Gary Pritts | Apr 7, 2014 | HIPAA
Walgreens’ new pharmacy model may be unintentionally violating customers’ patient privacy rights. Named the “Well Experience,” this new store layout/business model gets pharmacists out in the store, with the intention of increasing the pharmacists’... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Mar 3, 2014 | Health Information Technology
Covered entities have been complying with the HIPAA Security Rule since 2005, with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the main enforcer starting in 2009. Industry watchers know that compliance across the provider community was limited, so, when CMS designed... 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
by Gary Pritts | Jan 2, 2014 | HIPAA
2014 is here and that means the long-delayed U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) random audit HIPAA audits may be starting soon. As we shared in another recent post (“Rodriguez of OCR discusses HIPAA Enforcement, other topics,”) the Director of the HHS... Read More
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