Breast Health Specialists of Oklahoma

Leading specialty care provider assures HIPAA compliance for three years and counting with Aegify Compliance Manager Dr. John Frame, highly respected surgeon and founder of Breast Health Specialists of Oklahoma (BHS of OK), has operated on thousands of breast cancer patients over his nearly three decades of surgical experience. However, he also runs a vibrant,…

Finding ‘Meaningful Use’ in a simple HIPAA Solution

Background & Challenges Barbara is the office manager for a Grand Rapids, Michigan family practice with four staffers and 1800 patients. The practitioner has been providing healthcare services to patients for 24 years. While attending her monthly association meeting of regional physician office managers, Barbara met local services provider Joe Dylewski, president of ATMP Solutions,…

Anthem Breach Sounds Security Alarms against Data Hackers

The health insurer Anthem Inc., which manages Blue Cross plans across a dozen states, recently announced that a hacking incident has compromised a database containing personal information of nearly 80 million individuals worldwide. Anthem believes that the unencrypted compromised information could include current and former members? and employees? names, birthdates, medical IDs/Social Security Numbers, Street…

Keeping Up President Obama’s Data breach Plan

The increasing number of data breaches from cyber criminals across various enterprises have brought in large scale loss of personal information besides financial losses and brand erosion. Even as technological growth helped governments across nations improve their communication and governance levels multi-fold, the cyber security breaches have pressurized them to work on security policy changes.…

Common mistakes to avoid to be guarded from HIPAA Audits and Penalties in 2015

Irrespective of the industry, the digital era demands protection of employee privacy and particularly the healthcare information as a vital obligation on the part of every employer. While the governments have designed HIPAA and HITECH laws to effectively manage this information, remaining compliant to these regulations is a daunting challenge in the world of cyber…

How Physicians can Avoid HIPAA Penalties in 2015

With the healthcare industry moving towards digitalization, the electronic health records even in protected formats are becoming increasingly attractive to the criminals of the cyber world. Not a day goes by without news articles published about hospitals or medical practitioners paying millions of dollars as penalties due to public exposure of the protected health information.…