OCR released a report on audits it conducted. It found that most CEs failed to meet the requirements for selected provisions in the audit. One of the first steps to improving is learning more about audits and assessments, which are trouble spots for entities.
As part of our continuing series, BOH caught up with Rebecca Herold, CDPSE, FIP, CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISM, CISA, FLMI, to ask the privacy expert HIPAA compliance questions.
Martin Fisher has been the director of information security and chief information security officer for Atlanta-based Northside Hospital for more than eight years. He discusses what’s top of mind in his role and what challenges lay ahead.
Dave Bailey, CISSP, knows firsthand what challenges arise daily for healthcare security officials. He explains what is on the minds of CIOs/CISOs and the security lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We caught up with privacy expert Rebecca Herold, FIP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI,CEO and founder of The Privacy Professor, and co-founder of Privacy & Security Brainiacs, to ask her some important HIPAA compliance questions.
Privacy expert Rebecca Herold, FIP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI,CEO and founder of The Privacy Professor, and co-founder of Privacy & Security Brainiacs, recommends some key actions for practitioners to identify vulnerabilities in their security and privacy practices.
According to the Office for Civil Rights, the most commonly alleged HIPAA complaints include impermissible uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI), lack of PHI safeguards, lack of patient access to PHI, lack of administrative safeguards of electronic PHI, and use or disclosure of more than the minimum necessary PHI.
