One of the primary purposes of the HIPAA Security Rule is to not just protect the privacy of individuals’ health information, but also to allow covered entities to adopt new technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care.
Your medical facility may not be as HIPAA compliant as you think. Do you have a HIPAA Compliance Plan in place? Have you identified who is managing HIPAA Compliance Services for your location? Protecting patient data is mandated by the federal government, but the responsibility and implementation are up to you. To help you, we…
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data. Any company that deals with protected health information (PHI) must ensure that all the required physical, network, and process security measures are in place and followed. This includes covered entities (CE), anyone who provides treatment, payment and operations in…
Anthem is one of the largest insurance providers in the United States. Unfortunately in 2015, they had the dubious honor of suffering the largest health data breach in history. It left protected health information of nearly 79 million of their customers exposed. As a result, a division of the US Department of Health and Human…