October 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Paula Moran, MEd, and Jennifer Edlind, JD, CHC, know what they're talking about when they say having an incident response team in place when a data breach occurs is important. Moran is privacy and security manager at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Edlind is director of privacy and compliance operations at University Hospitals Health System (UH) in Cleveland.

October 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Experience is said to be the best teacher, so learn from the mistakes made at other organizations.

October 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Q.As part of its fundraising effort, Hybrid ­Entity's cancer center wants to send a ­patient list ­(demographic information only) to Hybrid's ­development office, which is not ­designated as a healthcare component of Hybrid. Is this permissible? 

October 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

An important part of a compliance officer's job is ­responding to noncompliance complaints.