by HIPAAgps | Jan 25, 2018 | HIPAA News
Learn about the three common risk assessment mistakes that cost health care entities hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. The absolute largest risk assessment mistake is not conducting one. A risk assessment is required for HIPAA compliance. Oftentimes,...
by HIPAAgps | Jan 18, 2018 | HIPAA News
To understand HIPAA compliance requirements, you will need to understand some of the commonly used terms. Protected Health Information (PHI)- individually identifiable health information that is transmitted by electronic media, maintained in electronic media, or...
by HIPAAgps | Jan 11, 2018 | HIPAA News
On January 5, the OCR sent out an emergency update to the security and privacy email lists notifying health care organizations about new discovered computer vulnerabilities that may affect PHI. In the update, the OCR linked to a report from the Healthcare...
by HIPAAgps | Jan 4, 2018 | HIPAA News
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently provided guidelines for creating a robust cybersecurity plan. The cybersecurity plan is a 17-step process, according to AHIMA. However, the last step provided in the document is redundant, so we...
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