Whether you’re a healthcare provider, health plan, or healthcare vendor, you must meet HIPAA standards. Learn what’s required for HIPAA compliance and how to implement a successful program.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule generally requires HIPAA covered entities (health plans and most healthcare providers) to provide individuals, upon request, with access to the protected health information [...]
Compliancy Group created a HIPAA quiz, available for free, for covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) to assess their HIPAA compliance. We have analyzed the results from 352 [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil rights (OCR) issued the first HIPAA settlement for 2020. Steven A. Porter, M.D., a gastroenterological [...]
Under HIPAA, covered entities are defined as individuals or entities that transmit protected health information for certain transactions. These transactions generally include include transmission of healthcare [...]
As more healthcare providers are choosing to meet with patients virtually, it is important to determine whether or not the tools they are using are HIPAA compliant. [...]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed on August 21, 1996, during the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton. The law was the end-product of twin concerns [...]
Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a covered entity may, in some circumstances, be liable for its business associate breach under the business associate agreement. When May [...]
Cloud service providers (CSP) are businesses that provide network services, business applications, or infrastructure, in the cloud. The services are hosted in a remote data center that can be [...]
A managed service provider (MSP) is an entity that remotely manages a covered entity’s IT infrastructure, and/or end-user systems. Managed service providers who work with clients [...]
Even when a covered entity or business associate maintains an effective HIPAA compliance program, there are still instances where unintentional HIPAA violations occur. These violations can take [...]
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