As a health IT professional, you must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. HIPAA compliance ensures that patient data is safe and secure. The penalties for non-compliance can be severe, including fines and legal action. To avoid these penalties, ...

Imagine the process of HIPAA management in an average healthcare organization. What problems or points can you admit? We're sure that most of you can think that HIPAA management is dozens of bureaucracy and unnecessary work. But we are here to prove to you that it is a myth. The process of HIPAA ...

Introduction to the HIPAA Risk Analysis Under the HIPAA Security Rule, every covered entity (CE) and business associate (BA) must carry out guarantees of safety. It concerns any type of healthcare organization, plan, and provider, that shares electronic healthcare data within HIPAA ...

It is vital to constantly stress how important HIPAA training for employees is. In the permanently shifting cybersecurity landscape, regular HIPAA education of your workers can reduce a lot of risks. These include data breaches, unintentional PHI disclosures because of the lack of information, ...

Everyone who deals with the HIPAA sphere heard of the Business Associate Agreement, or shortly BAA. Covered entities (CEs) have to sign this agreement with third-party organizations, that deliver services to maintain operations on the ePHI of their patients securely. So, signing of Business ...