Aug 9, 2022 | Healthcare Industry, HSN, Legal, NIST, Policies and Procedures, Standards
Health Care Cybersecurity Update on Guidance The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided updated guidance for the health care industry. Designed to help with electronically protected health information (ePHI), they have created a new draft...
Aug 2, 2022 | ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Healthcare Industry, HSN, Legal
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as ADA. This Act is in place to prohibit discrimination against any qualified individual. As outlined on the ADA National Network site, it ‘is a civil rights law...
Feb 15, 2022 | HHS, HIPAA Violations, HSN, Legal, OCR, Policies and Procedures
March 1st, 2022 is the deadline for breach reporting for HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates – and the date is fast approaching! The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requirement means that HIPAA-covered entities, as well as any of their business...
Jan 4, 2022 | Breach Notification Rules, HSN, Legal
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule is a requirement put in place that requires HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates to “provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected health information.” The details provide an outline for how...
Dec 28, 2021 | HIPAA Violations, HSN, Legal, Policies and Procedures
Recently the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an announcement regarding extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws and the disclosure of protected health information (PHI). This published model was...
Jun 1, 2021 | HIPAA Violations, HSN, Legal, Policies and Procedures
Whether you choose to get a vaccine for COVID-19, it is your decision. We aren’t here to provide personal medical guidance or tell you what is right for you. But with regard to informing you about the healthcare landscape, well, that’s part of our program here at...
