by Donna Grindle | Dec 10, 2014 | HIPAA
Takeaways: The latest OCR resolution makes specific points on what OCR considers reasonable and appropriate technical safeguards of the Security Rule. If you aren’t up to date with all of your software, it does matter very much once malware finds you. There are...
by Donna Grindle | Nov 25, 2014 | HIPAA
Takeaways: HIPAA keeps getting more important to the business for CEs and BAs but who is going to have to learn the hard way for your office to take note? The Connecticut case of Emily Byrne vs. Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology involves a patient who sued a...
by Donna Grindle | Nov 11, 2014 | HIPAA
Takeaways: No longer are small providers “too small” for OCR to conduct a breach investigation. In an article concerning a breach investigation a copy of the information requested in the OCR letter was included. The items were to be supplied within 20 days. When I...
by Donna Grindle | Aug 4, 2014 | HIPAA
To borrow from Longfellow’s poem: Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, In this case, it isn’t a midnight ride but a late afternoon speech by Jerome B. Meites, a chief regional civil rights counsel at HHS, in Chicago. Historians...
by Donna Grindle | Jul 21, 2014 | HIPAA
The recent HHS settlement in the case of 71 cardboard boxes of medical records being left on a physicians driveway is your 800,000 reasons, and they are all in cold, hard cash. Here is the key detail about what happened direct from the resolution agreement: On June...
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