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HIPAA Compliance and Audit Controls - What You Need to Know
by Geoff Yeagley on February 22, 2017 at 4:45 AM
If you have read the news lately on healthcare and specifically HIPAA, you probably saw references to a recent HIPAA settlement between Memorial Health Systems of Florida and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). I’m sure the amount of the settlement caught your attention …
What is HIPAA Compliance? Just the Facts...
by Geoff Yeagley on January 24, 2017 at 10:50 AM
If you work in the healthcare industry, there is zero doubt that you have heard about HIPAA Compliance thousands and thousands of times. The importance of keeping electronic protected health information confidential is pounded into us on a daily basis and for good reason. But what is …
3 Reasons Why You Need a HIPAA Risk Assessment Right Now
by Geoff Yeagley on June 16, 2016 at 10:31 AM
HIPAA is in the news all the time. Whether it is the tragedy that struck Orlando last weekend, the news of the HIPAA Audits coming, or a new healthcare breach being reported, we are constantly bombarded with why HIPAA compliance is critical. As with any organization, protecting and sa …
The State of Security: Healthcare Security and a HIPAA Audit
by Geoff Yeagley on June 13, 2016 at 11:26 AM
Healthcare Security, particularly IT Security, is dominating the news cycles recently, for a number of reasons. The primary reason, however, is that the healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for hackers, organized crime entities, and nation states due to the significant amo …
The HIPAA Risk Assessment - Who Needs One and When?
by Geoff Yeagley on March 9, 2016 at 10:30 AM
Healthcare breaches are nothing new, in fact they have become quite common in the news on a weekly basis. As an example of this, a Central Florida Oncology provider recently announced that it suffered a data breach at the hands of a hacker, resulting in the compromise of the personal …
The HIPAA Risk Assessment: The First Step in a Long Journey
by Geoff Yeagley on December 11, 2015 at 10:20 AM
Every year, experts make predictions on what the following year is going to hold in terms of trends in the cybersecurity industry, what new threats we might face, and what impacts those threats might have on the average person. For years we heard about credit card security and the ass …