HIPAA Final Rule: Security Standards, General Rules & Administrative Safeguard Modifications
February 5, 2013. Today, we cover the modifications to Security Standards: General Rules, and Administrative Safeguards in the HIPAA Security...
Five HIPAA Compliance Activities Your Organization Must Undertake
HIPAA Administrative Simplification was enacted on August 21, 1996 as Subtitle F of Title II of Public Law 104-191. The so-called...
OCR’s Publicly Disclosed Large Breaches Now Top 20 Million Impacted Individuals
May 16, 2012. The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA/HITECH Act privacy and security enforcement arm, Office for...
OCR Penalizes Physician Practice for HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule Violations
April 18, 2012. Late last week, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services...
CMS Publishes Stage 2 Meaningful Use Incentive Program NPRM
On March 7, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register its 132-page notice...
OCR Issues Draft Guidance on Security Risk Analysis
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued on May 7, 2010,...
Transmission Security Integrity Controls: What to Do and How to Do It
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the first implementation specification for the Technical Safeguard...
Transmission Security: What This HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguard Standard Means
This is the fifth and last Technical Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. It has two implementation...
Person or Entity Authentication: What to Do and How to Do It
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the fourth Technical Safeguard Standard. There is not...
Person or Entity Authentication: What This HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguard Standard Means
This is the fourth Technical Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. There is not a separately described...