HIPAA Security Rule and Fines
Maintaining HIPAA compliance use to not have much teeth behind it. Times have changed, however, as the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is too well aware.
Maintaining HIPAA compliance use to not have much teeth behind it. Times have changed, however, as the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is too well aware.
Don’t Understand Compliance? On January 18th, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show teased U.S Representative Mel Watt for failing to understand a bill that he was trying to pass.
Let’s talk about HIPAA Gap Assessments. First of all, what is it? HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA (not HIPPA) requires organizations that handle electronic protected health information (another abbreviation for you: ePHI) to ensure that this information remains secure.
Early July sees the latest fines imposed by Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights for HIPAA violations.
An interesting benchmark study was done recently (published Jan., 2011) by Ponemon Institute, commissioned by Tripwire, Inc., entitled “The True Cost of Compliance”, examines 46 companies, and involved interviews of 160 functional leaders.
Information Security Management System. You can undergo a point in time audit or assessment and be compliant, but what happens a week later when patches have gone un-applied? Out of compliance again.