The HIPAA Omnibus Rule has brought significant changes to the HIPAA landscape for covered entities (CE) and their business associates (BA).
We ask one BOH advisory board member and columnist to answer some questions about how the roles of CEs and BAs have changed over the years.
Sending out a mass mailing of a pamphlet that contained Medicare beneficiary numbers resulted in a civil monetary penalty of $6,768,000 for Triple-S Salud, Inc. (TSS), a Puerto Rican health insurance subsidiary.
Q: Our organization does not support the use of USB drives. Is that typical?
Rick Ensenbach, CISSP-ISSMP, CISA, CISM, CCSFP, has one word for the HIPAA breach posted to OCR's wall of shame at the close of 2013: depressing.
Q: I am a registered nurse who received treatment for a health problem in the ED of the hospital that employs me.
