OCR Announces November 2011 Start of Privacy and Security Compliance Audits
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for privacy and security...
HITECH Act Breached Individuals Skyrocket in Latest OCR Web Site Posting
Nov 4, 2011
Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), enacted as part of the American Recovery...
Accountability Key Privacy/Security Principle of Meaningful Use 2011 Objectives
Jul 6, 2009
On December 15, 2008, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the U.S. Department of Health...
Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange: Key Meaningful Use 2011 Objective Recommendation
Jun 24, 2009
On December 15, 2008, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the U.S. Department of Health...
Physical Safeguard Standard, Device and Media Controls: Accountability Implementation Specification-What to Do and How to Do It
May 21, 2009
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, Device and Medial Controls is the fourth and last Physical...
Device and Media Controls: What This HIPAA Security Rule Physical Safeguard Standard Means
May 18, 2009
This is the fourth and last Physical Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. It has four implementation...