The HIPAA Omnibus Rule has brought significant changes to the HIPAA landscape for covered entities (CE) and their business associates (BA).
Tips from this month's issue
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?
Q: I am a registered nurse who received treatment for a health problem in the ED of the hospital that employs me.
The healthcare industry is taking lessons from the credit card and financial industry when it comes to preventing fraud.
