Data Destruction and HIPAA Competence as Related to IT Support Companies: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes with Guest Commentator Michael B. O’Hara, CISSP
Michael B. O’Hara’s narrative, part 1: Recently, my company, KB Computing, LLC, lost a managed services client. The reason, as it so often is, was .. read more
HIPAA and Clinical Research: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
As might be expected in these days of an overregulated health care industry, HIPAA regulates clinical research much as it does treatment, payment, health care .. read more
Risk Analysis: The First One Is the Worst One: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes with Guest Commentator Alice M. McCart, J.D.
We have many new HIPAA consulting clients at EMR Legal and many new HIPAA compliance tools customers at Veterans Press who know that they must .. read more
Latest HIPAA Settlement—a Lesson Still Not Learned: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
Although most civil money penalties (“CMPs”) to date have involved risk analysis—that is, failure to do one, failure to do a complete one, or failure .. read more
More on Texting! HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
I continue to get questions about texting under HIPAA. The most recent questions were in an email as follows: If we require our employees to .. read more
EMR Legal Remains Undefeated against OCR: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
Sometimes, we just need to toot our own horn. We are pleased to note that EMR Legal remains undefeated going up against the Department of .. read more
Is That Security Incident a Reportable Breach? HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
Several times a month, on average, I get a question from a Premium Member or others who get a free question, such as our seminar .. read more
Does DHHS Expect Email Encryption? HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes, along with guest commentator Brent Sadler, CIO at Veterans Press
One of our HIPAA clients/customers asked the following question through our Veterans Press website: “We have clients’ identifiable information that needs to be sent via .. read more
Minors’ Rights of Access to PHI: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
One of the more common questions that I get from Premium Members and others who have a free HIPAA question is regarding minors’ rights of .. read more
Health Information Privacy, No—Privacy, Yes: HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog by Jonathan P. Tomes
Because of privacy concerns, the Obama administration has reversed its use and disclosure of patient information in HealthCare.gov after the Associated Press had reported that .. read more
