I couldn’t help write this post when I noticed this press release based on an IDC Insights Survey of Oil & Gas Companies. I don’t have access to the full …
Notice the title doesn’t say HIPAA Security and Privacy. Nor does it have any of the words – HITECH, Omnibus Rule, Meaningful Use etc. That is the point of this post. Let …
As is well known, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been conducting pre and post payment audits of healthcare provider organizations attesting to Meaningful Use (MU). Our experience …
I happened to read this article from Information Week Healthcare and was especially interested by this quote reproduced below… “CHIME also raised the issue of excessive auditing of providers in …
Here is something to think about as a security/privacy consultant or consulting team, big or small … When you work on client consulting engagements, what are you really focused on? …
If you didn’t notice already, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a report on the oversight by the Center for …
Security Risk Analysis is something that we recommend all organizations conduct periodically or before a significant process or technology change. After all, threats, vulnerabilities and impact (three components of risk, …
If you have been following some of our posts, you probably realize that we don’t advocate security for the sake of security. Nor do we like to do compliance for …
Like some of you perhaps, I have been reading a few recent articles on Healthcare data breaches, especially the one from Dark Reading and a detailed analysis of the 2010-to-date …