Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Disaster
Critical events such as cyber–attacks, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, etc.), or hardware failures like routers or servers that affect the activities of an enterprise.
Additional reading
What Is HITRUST Compliance and Why Is It Important?
For healthcare companies, obtaining certification from HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) isn’t just about ticking a compliance box—it’s a commitment to establishing a robust standard for data protection. According to a HIMSS survey, a significant 81% of US hospitals and health systems, along with 83% of health plans, have chosen HITRUST as their primary framework…
Compliance Management: Implementation Process
Just as a citizen has to obey the rules and laws of their country, a business has to abide by a specific set of rules and legal boundaries set by the government and regulatory authorities. In business parlance, this is known as ‘compliance.’ Compliance is the broad structural framework by which companies are expected to…
Healthcare Data Breach Statistics: HIPAA Violation Cases and Preventive Measures in 2024
In October 2021, a Japanese hospital had to shut down operations for almost two months because hackers disabled their malware detection system, accessed sensitive medical data of 85,000 patients, and held them to ransom. While this made headlines, it is not an isolated incident. Healthcare services have consistently topped the charts for breaches, recovery costs,…
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