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HIPAA Technical Safeguards: A Basic Review

February 21, 2022 - While no healthcare organization can eliminate the possibility of facing a data breach, implementing HIPAA technical safeguards can go a long way toward mitigating cyber risk. Under the HIPAA Security Rule, healthcare organizations are required to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe from external and internal threats via...

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HIPAA Best Practices: Acceptable Use Policies, Team Training

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In an earlier post, we discussed the steps to performing a Risk Assessment. Once you’ve determined the risks within your healthcare environment, you can enlist your staff members to help you address...

Healthcare access badges: Physical, logical access links

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Healthcare organizations using access badges to secure physical access to (all or part of) their premises increasingly ask for the ability to use the same badges for access to their network and...

HIPAA Privacy Rule: Permitted PHI uses and disclosures

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Though sometimes the goals of the HIPAA Privacy Rule can get lost in data breach and monetary penalty news, ensuring that patient data is both properly protected and accessible should be a consistent...

Managing a health data breach with a response plan

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Some organizations say they’re going to improve security after an incident. David Dover, Privacy and Security Officer at Alere Inc., can attest that his organization did make the effort to...

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