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The HIPAA Audit Program, Part 3

In Part 2 of this three-part series, we took a deep look into the preliminary HIPAA Audit findings and observed the most common infractions identified by OCR. Specifically, security gaps accounted for the majority of results, with the lack of risk assessments and inadequate mobile device security being two of the most cited weaknesses. Fortunately for those selected in the 2012 pilot phase of the audits, OCR was primarily focused on using the exercise to educate covered entities of serious HIPAA issues.

Krishna KurapatiKrishna Kurapati
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The Role of Peer-to-Peer Encryption in the HIPAA Omnibus Era

It’s every compliance officer’s worst nightmare. You’re sitting at your desk on a weekday afternoon, perhaps catching up on the latest posts on the qliqSOFT blog, when all of a sudden your CIO calls you up and frantically explains how one of your vendors suffered a major data breach. Over thirty thousand patient records are lost, and there is no way to know what has been done with the data so far.

Krishna KurapatiKrishna Kurapati
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Top 100 HIPAA Data Breaches of 2017|Protect your network from HIPAA security breaches
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The Top 10 HIPAA Data Breaches of 2017 (So Far)

2017 is still several months away from ending and it is already shaping up to be one of the most volatile years on record for PHI data breaches. So far, 178 incidents are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, impacting well over 3 million individual patient records. Below is a list of the top 10 HIPAA data breaches as of August 2017.

Ben HensonBen Henson
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The True Cost of a HIPAA Data Breach

Another week, another HIPAA data breach. On September 10th, healthcare behemoth Kaiser Permanente sent out a letter to 670 patients, notifying them that their PHI had been impermissibly emailed out of network. But in light of all these recent data breaches and security failures, one might ask, “who cares?” If fixing the issue is as simple as writing an apology letter like Kaiser did, why go through all the hoops of encryption and access control and HIPAA compliance? After all, HHS still has the ultimate discretion of whether to assess penalties, right?

Krishna KurapatiKrishna Kurapati
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