Healthcare Assessments | HIPAA
By:
Michael Seegel
February 18th, 2025
Being HIPAA-compliant means that a healthcare provider has adequate measures in place to protect patient data. In recent years, there has been an alarming growth in the number of data breaches targeting the healthcare industry, and more breaches have meant more (and more serious) consequences for the affected provider.
By:
Kellie Worley
January 23rd, 2025
As the overarching regulation for healthcare data in the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has helped secure what is considered personally identifiable information (PII) and its transfer/disclosure within the sector. Under HIPAA, providers and their business associates (BAs) must meet the law’s requirements, including the administrative safeguards within its Security Rule.
Healthcare Assessments | HIPAA
By:
Schellman
May 23rd, 2024
Perhaps believing they’re simply too small for the government to consider, some smaller healthcare providers will choose to either fly under the radar or hope that regulators of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) won’t notice their lack of correct processes and controls. However, this likely won’t work—in fact, over 55% of HIPAA fines in 2022 were levied against small practices.
Healthcare Assessments | HIPAA
By:
Schellman
February 1st, 2024
Successfully managing your HIPAA risk means accounting for those introduced by your vendors that are supplementing existing business processes in different ways. Vendors can make you vulnerable in a variety of ways, which means a variety of solutions becomes necessary.