HIPAA Violations Are Still Mostly People, Not Technology: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
I learned a long time ago, when I served in that contradiction of terms, military intelligence, that the big risk, at that time to defense .. read more
Jon Tomes Will Be Presenting an All-Day, Live, and In-Person HIPAA Seminar in San Francisco in 3 Weeks: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes with Guest Commentator Alice M. McCart, J.D.
If you will be in San Francisco about 3 weeks from now and need HIPAA compliance training, go to https://www.compliancekey.us/seminar-details?industryId=3&seminarid=36&speakerid=124 to sign up. The HIPAA .. read more
What Do You Do If the HIPAA S**t Hits Your Fan and the Feds Come after You?: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
Many of you will (hopefully) never need the guidance in this blog post. And I have never read a HIPAA blog post or article talking .. read more
PHI with No Cover Sheet Warning Left on a Desk—Who’s Liable? HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
One of our EMR Legal clients and Veterans Press customers recently emailed me the following question: If a workforce member leaves a page from a .. read more
HHS OCR Issues New Guidance for Malicious Workforce Threats: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
The 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report found that 58 percent of security incidents resulted from insiders rather than outsiders, such as hackers. Discussing .. read more
Changed HIPAA and HITECH Penalties—a Boon or a Trap for the Unwary: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has announced a new penalty structure for the civil money penalties (“CMPs”) for HIPAA violations that apparently .. read more
A Masochist’s Guide to Getting a Huge, Painful HIPAA Penalty: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
A cynic might wonder whether some covered entities, and now business associates, want to become famous (perhaps infamous would be a better word) and break .. read more
Another State Fine for a HIPAA Security Breach: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
As we’ve previously noted in this blog, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”), the Federal Trade .. read more
What Will HIPAA Let You Do if You Are Slammed on Social Media? HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
No matter how good a practitioner you are and how perfectly you handled a particular patient/client health problem, you could certainly end up with a .. read more
Back to School: Time for HIPAA Training for Your Workforce: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes with Guest Commentator Alice M. McCart
It’s back-to-school time here in America, so it’s time to think about learning what we need to know and, by expansion, training our people in .. read more
