Why Security and Risk Analysis are a must for HIPAA Compliance and Meaningful Use Attestation?

Security Analysis The task of managing security is complex. Over 32K security gaps are now documented as potential vulnerabilities and are growing alarmingly. The recently discovered vulnerabilities that were lying dormant for years, such as the Heart-bleed, shell shock, and poodle bugs, and the recent GHOST vulnerability have added new dimensions to the security gaps.…

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1. Learn How to handle the biggest danger faced by Healthcare organizations, Tue Jul 12, 2016, 11am PT, Duration: 30 Mts As a compliance professional dealing with business associates agreements, when you think of the OCR HIPAA audit, what’s your first reaction? Is it one of confidence? Or is it anxiety and stress? If it’s…

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HIPAA Audit: OCR Is On The Move

Last week, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the launch of phase 2 of the HIPAA Audit Program. OCR’s goal is to proactively uncover and address risks and vulnerabilities to protected health information (PHI). Effective immediately, OCR will ensure Covered Entities (CEs), their Business Associates (BAs) and vendors have comprehensive risk management frameworks…

Avoiding Future Ransomware Attacks (Malware) Targeting Healthcare Providers

The “Ransomware” attack (Malware) described below definitely highlights the key value that the Aegify solutions suite offers to any scale of enterprises. The appropriate use of our security scanning and remediation solution would definitely have significantly mitigated the probability of such an attack from occurring as the organization would have stayed on top of any software…