When I’ve talked to CIOs about what’s keeping them up at night, they almost universally answer: security. No doubt it’s the biggest risk to...
HIPAA Fines
Even an ‘Internal Breach’ is a Breach According to an announcement on its website, Alabama-based DCH Health Systems fired an employee for accessing...
Usually, HIPAA violations are part of the background noise of the healthcare business, and few are so large that they prove catastrophic for the entity...
The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. From that analog origin to...
The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. There are thousands of articles on the internet about how to best work remotely from home. What...
For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly...
I’d been meaning to post this for a while, but got a little distracted with all the other news. Better late than never. HHS and OCR have changed the...
A Tennessee-based medical imaging firm has agreed to pay $3 million in fines after seemingly doing just about everything wrong after experiencing a patient...
In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation. In 2018 New York State suspended a nurse’s...
If you haven’t heard the details of the Sony hack, then lucky you. It seems that coverage of the hack has been everywhere. Long story short, Sony...
