Huge HIPAA Data Breach & 2014 Audits
Avoid a Costly HIPAA Data Breach with a Risk Analysis By Mike Semel Blog: 4Medapproved.com/HITSecurity Twitter: @SemelConsulting Do you think that HIPAA is just some…
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HIPAA Compliance and Meaningful Use Tech Tips
HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 1 of 2 COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting HIPAA Compliance can be a mystery. It can be even more mysterious when…
WEDI and OCR Summer Webinar Series on HIPAA Omnibus Continues
Webinars Offer Guidance to Small Healthcare Providers on Implementing HIPAA Omnibus The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991…
The Limits to De-Identification of Clinical Data
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor There is a wealth of opportunity for putting digital clinical data to use for better understanding health…
HIPAA Compliant Data – Who Can Get to What, and Why
Mike Semel Semel Consulting Before you give your employees HIPAA compliant access to patient data you must do some planning. While it would be easy to give…
Will HIPAA Omnibus’s Impermissible Disclosure and Use Standards Complicate Your Compliance Efforts?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Omnibus Rules, released in January 2013, will dramatically affect how you manage and deal with the impermissible disclosure…
HIPAA Data Breach Harder to Deny With New Standard
Proof of harm no longer required for a reportable HIPAA data breach The release of the HIPAA Omnibus package of regulations removes proof of ‘harm’ as a…
Data Security Tips for the New Year
11 data security tips for a healthy organization in 2013 Rick Kam, President and co-founder ID Experts 2013 is the Year of the Snake in…
Annual Study Reveals Reasons for Rise in Data Breaches
94% of Study Participants Experience More than One Data Breach Past Two Years Each year the Ponemon Institute releases a benchmark study looking at patient…