HIPAA Disaster Recovery Plans: Ensuring Compliance and Continuity in Healthcare Operations
Every organization should be able to recover quickly from any disaster that stops day-to-day operations. It goes without saying that without a recovery plan in place to handle disasters, organizations not only lose sensitive data but also cause irreparable reputational damage. The same applies to the healthcare industry. To ensure moderation and consistency, HIPAA has…
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Oct 10, 2024
What is HIPAA Compliant Cloud Storage Providers
Your cloud service provider is HIPAA compliant. But that doesn’t mean you are too! As a Covered Entity or a Business Associate who uses a HIPAA-compliant cloud to create, receive, maintain, and send protected health information (PHI), your compliance efforts don’t and mustn’t end there. While using a compliant cloud service provider is a must,…
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Oct 10, 2024
HIPAA Compliance form for Employers: How to write Non-Disclosure agreements
HIPAA aplies to employees or healthcare professionals who regularly handle PHI. This creates the risk of PHI disclosure – deliberately for personal gain or due to negligence. Either way, in such instances, employers must bear the legal consequences. The HIPAA compliance form for employers helps you to avoid violation of privacy rights, meet legal obligations,…
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Oct 10, 2024
HIPAA Compliance Automation: How to get started
Cybersecurity is a complex yet crucial system that requires clearly defined rules, limitations, regulations, and methodologies. Some people view compliance requirements as an obligation. But compliance, according to the majority of industry experts, is the key to being competitive, avoiding destabilizing attacks, traversing cyberspace, and giving your clients the cybersecurity they deserve. One such compliance…
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Oct 10, 2024
A Quick Guide to PHI Disclosure
If you work in a healthcare-related field, you’re familiar with safeguarding patient privacy under HIPAA. But let’s face it—putting those concepts into action can be overwhelming, especially when new challenges arise while identifying protected health information (PHI) and understanding covered entities. Staying up-to-date with evolving regulations and technology is a challenging task. Fear not, though!…
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Oct 09, 2024
HITRUST vs HIPAA : Compare Differences and Similarities
HIPAA and HITRUST are two standards often used interchangeably in the healthcare industry. Despite having overlapping requirements and the same goal – to secure protected health information (PHI), their applicability differs in many ways. This raises the question: which is right to secure data in the healthcare industry? Which makes more sense for my type…
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Oct 08, 2024
