HIPAA

Reasons Why Corporate Compliance is Good for Business

by Christine Meyers 20 June 2013

Collecting data and preparing reports for an auditor can seem burdensome and confusing. With so many regulations in place, the paperwork never seems to end. But the regulatory process is actually good for your business. After all, regulations were put in place by industry groups and government agencies to protect the public and shareholder interests. [...]

Major security breaches hit healthcare

by Christine Meyers 1 May 2012

The statistics are startling: In April 2012 alone, three major security breaches that hit the Utah Department of Health (UDH), Emory Healthcare and South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services accounted for nearly 1.1 million records lost. And it was the work of insiders. According to an article entitled “Healthcare Unable to Keep Up [...]

The Importance of Continuous Monitoring in Healthcare

by Christine Meyers 23 November 2011

Today’s next generation of fraud detection technologies can go a long way to supporting a HIPAA HITECH compliance effort and prevent privacy violations, misuse and abuse. Simply put, these systems provide visibility across multiple data channels to offer a comprehensive view of what is going on in your environment. Leading solutions offer screen-by-screen replay of [...]

Medical Identity Theft–The Next Big Thing?

by Christine Meyers 8 November 2011

I was speaking with a friend the other day about Medical Identity Theft, HIPAA compliance and enterprise fraud management. We were discussing a survey report published in March by the Ponemon Institute that found roughly 1.5 million Americans are victims of medical ID theft. In the survey, fourteen percent of respondents said the breach [...]

The Challenges of HIPAA Compliance

by Christine Meyers 25 October 2011

Meeting the Challenge of HIPAA Compliance HIPAA, the Final Privacy rule and various state regulations governing patient privacy all have one thing in common. They all require organizations to demonstrate access to PHI on a minimum need-to-know basis. That places the burden of governing access on the institution. In an audit situation, that means the [...]