Don’t let ePHI make your business another Connecticut case of HIPAA Negligence

Technological growth has empowered today’s healthcare industry with a number of software applications and IT infrastructure which enables them to communicate, store and process patient health information the digital way. However, with cyber threat lurking above the IT enabled environment, the Office for Civil Rights had enforced the HIPAA Privacy Rule, as a sequel to…

An Authoritative Compliance Security for an Unwavering Presence

As per the 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released by Verizon there has been a considerable drop in the number of compromised records- from 361 million in 2008 to 144 million in 2009 and less than 4 million in 2010. Security breach incidents have reduced to 1% in the healthcare sector while the hospitality…

Drawing-Out A Strikingly Compliant Role

While Cignet is recovering from the shock of $4.3 million fine slapped on it for HIPAA violation, barely two days later, the General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. or better known as the Mass General gets hit with a  fine of  $1 million penalty for blatant exposure of patients’ records in a…

Safe and Secure Compliance Practices For Small Business

It is a strangely paradoxical situation that despite revised and stricter compliance regulations the number of security breaches seems to rise. The HIPAA mandate was enforced to tone down risks threatening patients’ personal records. But there has hardly been any positive report of effective progress towards a threat free environment. As per a recent study…