ONC Touts its 10 Step Plan for Meeting Meaningful Use Privacy and Security Attestation Requirements
In a recent Tweet, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) stated: “Move into the 21st Century...
OCR Penalizes Physician Practice for HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule Violations
Apr 18, 2012
April 18, 2012. Late last week, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services...
CMS Initiates 90-Day Enforcement Discretion for 5010 Compliance
Nov 18, 2011
January 1, 2012, is the date for covered entities to achieve compliance with ASC X12 Version 5010, NCPDP Telecom D.0,...
Transmission Security Integrity Controls: What to Do and How to Do It
Jul 13, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the first implementation specification for the Technical Safeguard...
Person or Entity Authentication: What to Do and How to Do It
Jul 9, 2009
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
Jul 8, 2009
This is the fourth Technical Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. There is not a separately described...
Integrity: Mechanism to Authenticate Electronic Protected Health Information-What to Do and How to Do It
Jun 12, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the implementation specification for the third Technical Safeguard...
Audit Control: What to Do and How to Do It
Jun 10, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the second Technical Safeguard Standard. There is not...
Access Control: Emergency Access Procedure-What to Do and How to Do It
Jun 4, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the second implementation specification for the Technical Safeguard...
Access Control: Unique User Identification-What to Do and How to Do It
Jun 3, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the first implementation specification for the Technical Safeguard...