If your company is a covered entity or a business associate, you face unique challenges when workforce members ask or are required to work from home. Hopefully, your company’s HIPAA
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Encryption
One of Three $3 Million Lessons: Encrypt Mobile Devices
A large New York hospital system learned this lesson the expensive way. According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release issued earlier this week, the…
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The Blindfolded Business Associate: New HHS Guidance on HIPAA and Cloud Computing
According to the latest HIPAA-related guidance (Guidance) published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cloud service provider (CSP) maintaining a client’s protected health…
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Lack of Preparedness and Government Access Top Data Security Agenda
The private sector is still not prepared – and generally lacks the knowledge – to respond effectively to a major cyber breach, according to 80 percent of respondents in a…
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Apple, the FBI, and iPhone Encryption: A Battle of Biblical Proportions with Implications for HIPAA
Whether it was an apple or a quince, pomegranate, or some other more botanically-likely fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, God’s command in Genesis was clear: do not eat…
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New NJ Standard More Stringent than HIPAA
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill (S.562) into law on January 9, 2015 that will impose a standard more stringent than HIPAA on health insurance carriers authorized (i.e.,…
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Unencrypted Laptops Prove Costly
Is the PHI on all your mobile devices encrypted? If not, here’s another two million reasons to make encryption your top priority. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the…
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