by Elizabeth Hamilton | Jun 29, 2020 | HIPAA
How many times have you just signed an agreement because you trust the company by name? The company is well known and it has been in business for a long time, it must have all the contracts i’s dotted and t’s crossed, right? Well, signer beware! In episode 233 of...
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 | 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 | Mar 24, 2014 | HIPAA
Doing a Security Risk Analysis is high on many lists right now. Not only is it the number one thing OCR has defined as not being done properly, but it is also a required element for Meaningful Use attestation. We have been getting a lot of traffic to our Risk...
by Donna Grindle | Mar 4, 2014 | HIPAA
We started working with our clients on replacing XP machines in their technology plans in 2013. No one is surprised when we come calling for the last few they have installed in 2014. They have been hearing we were removing them for a long time. But, not everyone has...
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