Briefings on HIPAA

HIPAA enforcement is increasing; what should healthcare organizations do?

Understand the privacy and security risks associated with new technologies.

When does a breach violate HIPAA?

Chris Apgar answers questions about the HIPAA Security Rule.

Would all your staff members know what to do if their laptop computers were lost or stolen?

If healthcare organizations take a lesson from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee's (BCBST) $1.5 million settlement for its 2009 HIPAA breach, it's that they should wake up and pay attention to where their ePHI is contained and stored, says Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CISSP, CSCS.

Healthcare organizations could see the long-awaited final rules for HIPAA/HITECH before the end of June.

With 20 initial "trial" audits completed, OCR ­expects to move forward with another 95 audits to ­measure HIPAA compliance before year's end, said ­Susan ­McAndrew, JD, OCR's deputy director for health ­information privacy. This represents a reduction in the number of audits (150) that were originally planned for 2012.