Telegenisys is an American company registered in Delaware and operating in California. While some international outsourcing companies are registered outside the US and do not have to comply with US laws, as a US company for more than two decades Telegenisys does...
Lately, most known HIPAA violations have happened because of data exposure from a vulnerable computer, however healthcare organizations have also suffered from other circumstances of HIPAA violations without knowing it. People install anti-virus programs and also keep...
When it comes to maintaining HIPAA compliance, both healthcare providers and their chosen third-party vendors – or business associates – need to work together for comprehensive and current health data security. According to Tim Feldman, Vice President and General...
Bill Kleyman's recent article in health it security goes over the basics that every healthcare security administrator must consider in their own operations. But no healthcare network operates in isolation. Each healthcare provider must network with other institutions...
HIPAA: Risk Assessment Risk assessment helps covered entities ensure they are compliant with the HIPAA necessities in terms of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. It also helps in showing potential areas where an organization might be putting PHI at...
Healthcare organizations must guarantee that they have comprehensive and regularly updated administrative safeguards, such as user authentication procedures and proper access control with all healthcare facility. A failure to have these in place, or having outdated...
Covered entities and business associates should be well-aware of the OCR HIPAA audit program, particularly when Phase2 has already been in place for several months now. More organizations are electing for cloud computing options, and may even start to implement...
The HIPAA privacy & security rule requires covered entities, including health care providers and health plans, and their business associates to conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity...
For the first time, the office of civil rights (“OCR”) penalized a covered entity for failure to implement audit procedures to review, modify, and/or terminate users’ right of access. More than 100,000 individuals had their electronic protected Heath Information...
Recently a life insurance company that failed to safeguard patient health data received a penalty of $2.2 million by U.S. department of Health and Human services. Ref. As per the report, pen drive containing protected health information was stolen from it department....
