To fully understand where your organization's risks lie, you not only need to have a firm grasp on risk analysis and assessment processes, you need to define these processes as well.
Cybersecurity threats, cloud computing, proliferation of mobile device technology, and the pervasiveness of social media directly affect healthcare operations and privacy and information security programs?as does the explosion of data, which makes safeguarding information assets increasingly more important and difficult.
Q: The hospital where I work entered into a business associate agreement (BAA) that requires the business associate (BA) to notify us of a potential breach no more than 60 days after it is discovered.
Managing compliance can be a daunting task and any tool that simplifies the process is a welcome addition to the market. Ostendio's offering, MyVirtualComplianceManager™ or MyVCM™ is a cloud-based compliance management platform that is easy to use and designed for small- to medium-sized covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA). MyVCM supports assessment of risk, creation and management of policies and procedures, and compliance monitoring.
