HIPAA
Breaches of medical records and complaints concerning HIPAA violations are increasing annually. There have been more than 32,000 HIPAA complaints to the Office of Civil Rights over the past five years. Oversight by the government and increased consumer awareness are said to factor into the number of complaints.
With that in mind, below we’ve provided links to some articles of interest related to Best Practices for HIPAA.
HIPAA and Beyond: How to Effectively Safeguard Electronic Protected Health Information
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how to go beyond HIPAA by showing how to use HIPAA as the starting point for your security program, and then using best practices and Lumension Security solutions to improve your overall security posture.
BlackBerry HIPAA Compliance
WHITE PAPER: Non-compliance with HIPAA can affect the integrity and security of an organization’s entire IT system. Read this paper to learn how combining technologies with security policies can help your organization reduce the risks associated with mobile devices.
10 Steps to HIPAA Security Compliance
As family physician Dan Brewer, MD, once wrote on an e-mail discussion list, “I believe I would rather eat live cockroaches than learn about HIPAA security.” Nothing, it seems, could be more boring and less related to the practice of family medicine than computer security. But don’t be fooled into complacency. You and your patients are probably more familiar with security risks and the costs or hassles associated with inadequate protection than you realize.
