Are you looking for a way to increase the information technology security in your medical office? Dedicated IT support services are an effective way to make your office more secure. After all, the Ponemon Institute reports that data breaches cost the U.S. healthcare industry more than $6.2 billion each year. Protecting the personal health and …
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HIPAA has been the law of the land since 1996. The Privacy and Security rules are also now over a decade old. That means there’s little leeway when healthcare organizations make mistakes or fail to maintain standards set out by the law. If you fail an audit, you will be fined. Fortunately, HIPAA rules are …
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It’s more common nowadays for patients to use technology at the doctors. Today, healthcare providers use electronic sign-in forms and databases more than ever. The advancement of technology has certainly made things easier for doctors and patients. Yet, the more we use technology as a society, the more we put ourselves at risk for hacks …
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services received 21,381 HIPAA complaints in 2016. How can you make sure your organization isn’t included in that statistic? It can be hard to know if you’re covering all your bases. That’s why we created this post with 8 HIPAA compliance pitfalls and how you can avoid them. …
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HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) provides a legal framework for protecting private medical information. The law protects not only personally identifiable information but virtually all data collected by organizations working in or adjacent to the field of medicine. It provides both standards for protecting the data and how to share the …
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Maintaining compliance with The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is essential for any medical organization. HIPAA violations can cost your organization up to $50,000 per violation. Having an effective, well designed HIPAA security policy can be the difference between success and failure in HIPAA compliance. Check out the five most important practices to …
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Are you familiar with HIPAA compliance? Is your organization doing all that it is required to protect patient records? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has become very important in recent years. This is because so many healthcare organizations are making use of technology to operate more efficiently. With the addition of new …
You might’ve heard of the term penetration testing if you work in computers, software, or web design fields. But what is penetration testing? And why should you bother with it? Cyber threats, unfortunately, are very real in this day and age, with 80% of businesses hacked. And it seems hackers come up with new ways …
As a medical and healthcare professional, you know that HIPAA laws and enforcement procedures are constantly evolving. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep up. Still, that doesn’t mean that you won’t be held responsible in the event of a HIPAA violation. In this post, we’ll tell you some of the best practices that you should take …
Since the start of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, there have been more than 167,000 complaints and potential violations. As a medical professional, it’s your responsibility to ensure that the medical information and data of your patients aren’t compromised. However, with cyberattacks on the rise all across the globe, protecting your patients’ personal information is more …
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