HIPAA Business Associates and now Subcontractors – A Big Heads Up!
HIPAA Business Associates and HIPAA Compliance Whew! Nothing like a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) from Health and Human Services (HHS) to send the…
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Friday at Five – 7/9/10
Join us every Friday at Five for our weekly top 5 favorites in the world of HIT and HITECH. This week we pick five newsletters…
HIPAA fines realized
HIT me with your best shot A weekly post by Wm. T. Oravecz WTO-Associates LLC This week, here in my State of Connecticut, our Attorney General,…
HIPAA proposed modifications released
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996…
Registration reminder: CMS ICD-10 5010 Call
A reminder that registration for the upcoming CMS call on “ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment” closes at noon EST on Monday. This is a…
Is your copier a HIPAA security hole?
One of the areas we continually monitor here at HITECH Answers is HIPAA. We have added a new resource to our HIPAA page – HIPAA…
CMS ICD-10 5010 National Provider Conference Call
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a national provider conference call on “ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment.” The call is…
HIPAA Security and Laptop Theft
The following guest post is provided by Bob Chaput, President of Data Mountain LLC, a data security, disaster recovery and data protection services firm. HITECH…
The Government is Serious: Breach Notifications will be posted
The following guest post is provided by Alex Zaltsman, CEO of Experior Data Security and Encryption and contributing expert to HITECH Answers. For more information, visit…