The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has confirmed – to Fierce Health IT – that its preliminary HIPAA surveys have now been issued, marking the start of the 2015 HIPAA […]
A Business Associate (BA) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has issued a notification to the healthcare center, and many other clients, of a HIPAA breach caused by a member of staff. The now […]
The following article considers the use, benefits and disadvantages of e-signatures in the healthcare industry, and whether they are compliant with HIPAA rules. The increasing utilisation of digital signatures in the healthcare industry increases the […]
The Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) reqiores that all covered bodies put in place the appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards to keep PHI secure. Failure to […]
Calculating the cost of a HIPAA data violation is not a simple process, at least not until a number of years after a data breach happened. Corrective actions must be taken following a data breach, […]
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