Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'HITECH Act'
I am talking to increasing numbers of privacy and information security pros who are concerned about not only getting their pandemic plans in place, but also wanting to know what kinds of privacy issues need to be addressed within the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 14, 2009 7:45 PM
Of course the answer is no. But there are many reasons! Tune in this afternoon at 4:00pm Pacific time to hear Anyck Turgeon, Scott Draughon and me discuss this topic and talk about encryption laws and the impacts to privacy....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 10, 2009 8:58 AM
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164: "Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information; Interim Final Rule" (Breach Notice Rule) has been written about a lot. But much of what is written overlooks...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 9, 2009 11:00 AM
This was another very busy week, and I didn't have a chance to post as much as I would have liked. Part of what kept me busy was an unusually increased amount of email......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 4, 2009 8:31 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued their interim final rule for breach notification standards on August 19. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued their final rule of breach notification standards on August 17. The HHS rule covers all...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 31, 2009 9:28 PM
I received a very interesting question yesterday, and I wanted to share it and my response here because it is a great HIPAA topic to discuss that I have not seen written about before. I've removed the identifying information, and...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 28, 2009 9:59 PM
Here are some important websites to bookmark for you to reference when you need help...beyond what I have on my blog and at my website :)...if you are a US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Covered Entity (CE)...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 26, 2009 9:08 PM
After a few days unable to make time to post to the blog, or technical difficulties preventing me when I did make time, I'm happy to resume my posting! Today I want to offer a few thoughts about the breach...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 24, 2009 9:57 PM
I get a bit irritated when I see a vendor touting their "compliance solution" products as making organizations "HIPAA Compliant" or "PCI DSS Compliant" or whatever your regulation of choice happens to be, and then, upon inspection of their products,...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 7, 2009 6:01 PM
Monday the HHS announced they were moving responsibility for both HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule under the OCR. That same day they also announced they were expanding the HIPAA "privacy enforcement team." (Scroll down on this page to see...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 5, 2009 6:01 PM
Monday the HHS announced they were moving responsibility for both HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule under the OCR. That same day they also announced they were expanding the HIPAA "privacy enforcement team." (Scroll down on this page to see...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 5, 2009 6:01 PM
Today the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the OCR will now be responsible for both the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. Perhaps this is an indicator of more enforcement to come. As a...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 3, 2009 5:36 PM
This week one of my tweeps asked me the following: "What's your interpretation of encryption obligations for PHI data-at-rest under HITECH? Many parties are sweating this now." Great question!...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 31, 2009 3:12 PM
Continuing along the discussion of the HITECH Act this week, I want to consider a couple of questions I recently discussed with a CISO at a healthcare insurer about when breach notification is necessary......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 29, 2009 12:22 PM
This week I want to take a closer look at some of the issues and requirements within the HITECH Act, which dramatically expands the reach and requirements under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 27, 2009 9:21 AM
There is much debate about what specific types of items should be considered as personally identifiable information (PII). A common topic of debate is; if information can be found publicly does that mean it is not PII?...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 16, 2009 7:14 PM
Here's yet another incident that provides very good lessons that could be incorporated into information security and privacy training sessions as a case study, particularly for HIPAA compliance as well as secure disposal training......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 21, 2009 8:42 PM
A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and concerned by a statement made in one of my many listservs by a lawyer commenting on HIPAA books and past advice given for HIPAA compliance......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 18, 2009 1:43 PM
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexander B. Howard at SearchCompliance.com for a 26 minute podcast......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 6, 2009 4:00 AM
Today I had the great pleasure and opportunity to do a podcast with Alexander Howard over at TechTarget discussing HIPAA and the HITECH Act......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 28, 2009 11:05 PM
Last Friday the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released, at the last possible moment to meet their deadline, their interim final regulations to require covered entities (CEs) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 21, 2009 1:09 PM
Last week I engaged in a very interesting tweetversation with David Mortman about when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) needs to get their guidance documents and rules published for the various HITECH Act requirements......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 20, 2009 9:44 PM
Upon reading and researching HIPAA and the impact of the HITECH Act upon it, basically broadening its applicability as well as adding new requirements for privacy breach notifications, I recently was compelled to write an article about what I foresee...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 31, 2009 12:15 PM
Rafal Los makes some very good points in his post "Analysis of the Stimulus Bill and Healthcare Privacy" from a few days ago. I started writing all my thoughts as a comment to him, but then decided it would work...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 6, 2009 8:23 PM
Okay, here's a perfect real incident to use for a case study to argue discuss whether or not this is a HIPAA violation!...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 26, 2009 7:30 PM
On February 2 Allscripts released a report, "The 2009 Economic Stimulus Plan and the Electronic Health Record: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Medical Groups; A Survey of 1,800 Healthcare Professionals" (NOTE: Registration is required, but it's free.) A few excerpts...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 11, 2009 10:52 AM
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