HIPAA May be the Least of Your Compliance Worries
The following is a guest blog post by Mike Semel from Semel Consulting. Check out all of Mike Semel’s EMR and HIPAA blog posts. What requirements have you hidden away? I visited a new healthcare...
View ArticleSlow Learners Teach Big Lessons – $2 Million State HIPAA Penalty
Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Mike Semel as the latest addition to the Healthcare Scene blog team. We’ve been working with Mike for quite a while as a guest blogger, so it’s great to have Mike...
View ArticleTips On Storing Patient Information In The Cloud
These days, it’s pretty much a given that providers will store some or all of their data in the cloud, i.e. off-site on a vendor’s servers. For many providers, doing this is a good idea, as it allows...
View ArticlePhysician Group Cited For Sharing Patient Data Without Business Associate...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business associate agreement. The group, Advanced...
View ArticleLess Than a Year to Replace Windows 7 and Server 2008
When Microsoft ends support you will be unsecure and non-compliant Time is running out. And you probably don’t have the resources you need. Microsoft is ending security patches and updates for Windows...
View ArticleGoogle, U of Chicago Medical Center Sued Over Alleged Sharing Of Identifiable...
The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google have been hit with a lawsuit contending that the hospital shared hundreds of thousands of patient records with the tech giant which included...
View ArticleCerner Partners With Duke To Create Data Sharing Network For Clinical Research
Earlier this month, I wrote a blog item laying out some of the problems Epic is facing in getting its clients to share de-identified patient data among themselves. In sum, I concluded that while it...
View ArticleApple, Google Come Together To Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID-19 virus. The effort, which will only...
View ArticleHIPAA Seal of Compliance = Consumer Fraud
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consumer fraud settlement against a company that displayed a ‘HIPAA Compliant’ seal on its website. After a data breach, SkyMed, a company that provides...
View ArticleThe Impact of Ransomware on Healthcare Disaster Recovery and Business...
As ransomware inundates healthcare organizations, everyone is trying to figure out how they can prepare their healthcare organization for these ongoing attacks. As one CISO told me, we have to be...
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