An $18.5 million HIPAA lesson for healthcare organizations

May 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

If healthcare organizations take a lesson from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee's (BCBST) $1.5 million settlement for its 2009 HIPAA breach, it's that they should wake up and pay attention to where their ePHI is contained and stored, says Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CISSP, CSCS.

HIPAA/HITECH final rules, finally?

May 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Healthcare organizations could see the long-awaited final rules for HIPAA/HITECH before the end of June.

Initial OCR audits complete; more to come

May 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

With 20 initial "trial" audits completed, OCR ­expects to move forward with another 95 audits to ­measure HIPAA compliance before year's end, said ­Susan ­McAndrew, JD, OCR's deputy director for health ­information privacy. This represents a reduction in the number of audits (150) that were originally planned for 2012.

Convince your leaders to invest their dollars

May 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Sure, you understand the value of investing in improvements that will better protect your organization's PHI. But do the senior leaders who actually hold the purse strings get it?

Healthcare system develops mobile device checklist

May 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Would all your staff members know what to do if their laptop computers were lost or stolen?