HIPAA Secure Now Joins Far-Reaching Initiative to Promote the Awareness of Online Safety and Privacy for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Oct 1, 2019 | HSN

October 1, 2019 — HIPAA Secure Now! today announced its commitment to National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), held annually in October, by signing up as a Champion and joining a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. NCSAM...

Ransomware Chaos in Campbell County

Sep 30, 2019 | HSN, ransomware

Campbell County Chaos Hopefully, you didn’t have a doctor appointment in Campbell County Wyoming recently.  And if you had an emergency situation, perhaps you were not getting the immediate care that you may have hoped for when you showed up at the ER.   It wasn’t the...

Right to Access was Implemented to Protect Patients but is Hurting Patients & Providers Alike (Part 2)

Sep 23, 2019 | HSN

We previously published Part 1 of this article on abuses of Patient Right to Access for medical records and how these abuses can overburden healthcare providers and put patient health information at risk. This Part 2 focuses on what healthcare organization can do...

Right to Access was Implemented to Protect Patients but is Hurting Patients & Providers Alike (Part 1)

Sep 17, 2019 | HSN

The following blog was written for the HIPAA Secure Now community by DataFile Technologies, a leading provider of health data management including fast records release services with a 24-hour turn-around time, and an industry-leading accuracy rate over 99.9%. You may...

Compliance & Cybersecurity Go Hand-In-Hand

Sep 16, 2019 | HSN

Humans or HIPAA? When it comes to healthcare organizations addressing the HIPAA compliance of their business, many feel prepared and comfortable, readily checking that “compliant” box. But addressing the human part of security falls by the wayside too often. ...

Does Your Breach Response Plan Include Notification?

Sep 11, 2019 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN

Remain Calm, Remain Honest – and Remain in Business Avoiding the inevitable does not make it go away. Healthcare patients choose a provider based on the quality of care.  In addition to that, the public will generally assume that their private information is...