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New HIPAA Security Information on the CMS website

I just got a notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

New HIPAA Security Information on the CMS website

"On February 20, 2008 The Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) within CMS posted a document called Information Request for Onsite Compliance Reviews. OESS recently procured contracted services to assist with onsite compliance reviews related to potential HIPAA Security Rule violations. To ensure that the industry has an idea of the type of information OESS might request during these reviews, OESS developed a sample security checklist, which highlights several areas of vulnerability associated with the security of electronic protected health information."

I haven't looked at the security checklist yet, but it will be interesting to see what it has within it.

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Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.