HIPAA Topics
This archive includes a variety of HIPAA topics including best practices for compliance, techniques for staff training, expert interpretations of the requirements and other topics.
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.
Privacy Risk Assessment for DD Boards
Most County Boards of Developmental Disabilities are performing at least a periodic Security Risk Assessment (SRA). The SRA, mandated by HIPAA, explores risks to the security of electronic Protected Health Information (PHI). But what about the rest of the PHI? A... Read More
Sell More to Hospitals with a HITRUST Certification
The Provider Third Party Risk Management Council, made of a consortium of leading hospitals, introduced a new approach to third-party risk management. How can you better serve them? The solution is simple – any vendor of a certain size who wishes to do business with one the member hospitals must successfully complete – and annually maintain — a certification using the HITRUST CSF. Member hospitals will accept a HITRUST certification as evidence of a robust security program. No questionnaires or further dialog is necessary.
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HITRUST Certification: Our New Partnership with Drummond Group
The Drummond Group is proud to support the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) CSF framework as one of its first CSF Assessors beginning in 2010. The HITRUST CSF is both a risk and compliance-based framework which leverages existing, globally recognized... Read More
Kansas Dept. for Aging and Disability Services Employees Fired Over Email Containing PHI
2 Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services employees were terminated after sending an email containing PHI of 11,000 individuals to improper recipients.
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