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HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool: An Easier Way to Assess HIPAA Vulnerabilities?

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

A new Security Risk Assessment tool is now available to help small and medium sized offices “conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.”* The tool, released by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), is intended to help […]

The $150,000 PHI Flash Drive

Friday, March 7, 2014

Imagine this, your health care employee loses a flash drive containing protected health information. You immediately inform the affected patients and the media as required under the breach notification rules of HIPAA and HITECH. You’re in the clear, right? Perhaps not, as one health care provider recently learned to the tune of $150,000. The […]