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By April Sage on January 27, 2012
Following up from last week’s question #1, the second most important question to ask a Business Associate is: Who performed your independent HIPAA audit and do you provide copies of the audit report? This single question quickly reveals Business Associates who take HIPAA compliance seriously. Business Associates who have invested in an independent HIPAA audit [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged business associate agreement, business associates, HIPAA audits, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting |
By Aaron Riddle on January 26, 2012
With smartphones and social media platforms becoming a major means of communication between friends, family and co-workers, we have come to appreciate the evolution of mobile applications. With over 500,000 apps on iPhone, 350,000 on Android and thousands more on other operating systems, there are many different apps out there that offer many different services [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HIPAA hosting, mobile data security, mobile security, PCI compliance, PCI hosting, smartphone data security, smartphone security |
By Thu Pham on January 24, 2012
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in the healthcare industry – from quickly filing e-prescriptions to collecting and sending patient health information (PHI) directly to an EHR/EMR (electronic health or medical record) system, the use of smartphones, tablets and other portable devices is changing the quality of patient care for the better across the nation. But [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, iphone security, mobile device security, mobile security, smartphone security |
By Thu Pham on January 11, 2012
Just before the New Year, I received a strange email that appeared to be sent from the New York Times regarding my account. But the email referenced renewing my home delivery subscription, which I don’t have – I only have an online subscription. A few days later, I received another email apologizing and acknowledging it [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged data breaches, data security, email marketing spam, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting, PCI DSS compliance |
By April Sage on January 10, 2012
Could budgeting for an independent HIPAA audit be well worth the investment for business associates? In the event of a HIPAA violation, the numbers for federal penalties, legal and security fees and resulting lawsuits add up to a significant sum that has a serious impact on the bottom line. The annual investment is often worth [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged business associates, data breaches, HIPAA audits, HIPAA breaches, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA violations |
By Thu Pham on January 9, 2012
With the confusion regarding what audits and auditor reports apply to certain aspects of data center standards, I felt the need to create a basic data center/hosting solution audit cheat sheet to simplify matters. Here’s your comprehensive guide to data center audits and reports. SAS 70 The Statement on Auditing Standard No. 70 was the [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting, PCI DSS, SAS 70, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ssae 16 |
By Chris Rizzo on January 6, 2012
We are now entering the second year of federal health IT incentives and it is more important now than ever to take steps toward achieving HIPAA compliance and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system. The federal government has already paid out more than $872 million in incentives to Medicaid/Medicare health organizations and individual providers [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged health IT news, HIPAA compliance, hipaa compliance news, HIPAA compliant hosting, hipaa compliant resources, HIPAA hosting, hipaa news |
By Thu Pham on December 22, 2011
The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) provides an introductory resource guide for implementing HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Security Rule, including handy tables that breakdown the safeguards that covered entities and business associates need to abide by if they handle PHI, or ePHI (electronic protected health information). This multi-part series on [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA administrative safeguards, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA hosting, hipaa safeguards |
By Aaron Riddle on December 21, 2011
According to a recent Gartner study, smartphones accounted for 297 million (19%) of the 1.6 billion mobile phones sold in 2010. That’s 72.1% more smartphone sales than in 2009 and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down for 2011 and beyond. The advancements that have been made in the mobile market have been nothing more [...]
Posted in Information Technology Tips, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged data breaches, data security, HIPAA breaches, HIPAA compliance, mobile phone security, mobile security, PCI compliance, smartphone security |
By Thu Pham on December 19, 2011
In order to achieve federal meaningful use requirements, the top planned IT projects include purchasing or upgrading their EMR or EHR software (58 percent). According to a recent InformationWeek.com survey of business technology professionals at physician practices, hospitals, healthcare centers and other healthcare providers, other IT projects include adopting an e-prescribing system (25 percent) and [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged EHR, EMR, health IT, healthcare IT, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant data centers, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting |
