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 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...
Over 10 Million Individuals Now Affected by Large Data Breaches, as Reported on OCR Web site
Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), enacted as part of the American Recovery...
Physical Safeguard Standard, Device and Media Controls: Medi Re-use Implementation Specification-What to Do and How to Do It
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
This is the fourth and last Physical Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. It has four implementation...
Evaluation-What This HIPAA Security Rule Administrative Safeguard Standard Means
This is the eighth Administrative Safeguard Standard of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule. Its implementation specification is embodied in the...
Contingency Plan: Emergency Mode Operation Plan-What to Do and How to Do It
In our series on the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule, this is the third implementation specification for the Administrative Safeguard...