What You May Not Know About HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to protect the privacy and security of patient information. It is a healthcare organization’s responsibility to implement safeguards that ensure patient information is properly protected. Bottom line: protect your patient’s data and your company data. There are several steps to ensuring that this compliance is […]
Are Small Practices Subject to HIPAA Compliance?
This HIPAA question is commonly pondered by small healthcare practices regularly leading to a downwards spiral of more questions. All too often we hear small organizations dismiss compliance obligations thinking they are small enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny. In reality, the size of an organization doesn’t determine whether or not they are a covered entity […]
Industry Spotlight: The Top 5 Reasons Healthcare Struggles with Cybersecurity
The News The news is notoriously famous for covering large enterprise stories but very rarely talks about the small practices. This leads many to believe that small organizations are ignored by hackers and very rarely susceptible to malware attacks. It is commonly believed that only large organizations are the target of cyber attackers due to […]