For the past couple of years now we’ve been hosting and producing ongoing series of webcasts to help providers navigate the health IT landscape. Now we bring you Healthcare De Jure, our latest series serving up the hottest healthcare issues of the day.
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If you’re unfamiliar with our series of live educational webcasts, this is the month to join us as we tackle three topics impacting the entire industry – HIPAA Audits, MIPS and cybersecurity. All of our events are free to join. Here is the April schedule.
By Matt Fisher – sits down with Mac McMillan, the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of CynergisTek, Inc., to discuss cybersecurity issues facing the healthcare industry. The discussion focused on ransomware, the role of data in healthcare, which includes where generated and how utilized, and how to manage access to data.
By Matt Fisher – It has been a frequent message that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been providing numerous HIPAA lessons over the past few years through settlement announcements.
By Matt Fisher – The HIPAA Privacy Rule is an aspect of HIPAA that does not necessarily receive much attention. Most of the recent settlements and breach actions related to violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The Security Rule offers more glamour from the press perspective because cybersecurity, hacking and other activities attract headlines.
By Matt Fisher – The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator of HealthIT (ONC) and others are becoming prolific in the amount of HIPAA guidance being issued.
By Matt Fisher – The 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference promises to showcase many new developments in the health IT field and highlight key areas of focus. In what will not likely be a surprise based on the focus of my blogging, I anticipate that privacy and security will be a primary focus.
By Matt Fisher – The OCR at the Department of Health and Human Services sent out an email on February 2, 2016 to announce the launch of a cyber-awareness for the healthcare industry. OCR recognizes the danger faced by healthcare from an array of bad actors and the need to spread information.
By Matt Fisher – With the start of a new year, it seems like a good time to take stock of privacy of healthcare information, which is currently a very hot topic. As was discussed in great detail, 2015 saw a continuing explosion of breaches concerning healthcare information, which put both privacy and security in the limelight.