Protecting Health Information: the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules

Protecting Health Information: the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules

Big Data in the Campus Landscape: Security and Privacy

Privacy is a simple term for two complicated concepts. At its most basic layer, privacy is always about people and their control of their personal information. Information privacy protects individuals by protecting information about them from unauthorized disclosure (think compliance with FERPA, HIPAA, IRB regulations, or state breach notification laws). Autonomy privacy protects individuals by...

New HIPAA rules: a guide for radiology providers.

The Office for Civil Rights issued its long awaited final regulations modifying the HIPAA privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification rules--the HIPAA Megarule. The new HIPAA rules will require revisions to Notice of Privacy Practices, changes to business associate agreements, revisions to HIPAA privacy and security policies and procedures, and an overall assessment of HIPAA complia...

How HIPAA final rules affect health information technology vendors.

I n addition to healthcare reform, healthcare providers and their vendors now have to grapple with recently promulgated federal rules regarding privacy and security of health information. Key to the future of the healthcare reform efforts is health information technology (HIT), a broad term that is often used in conjunction with electronic health records (EHRs), mobile health (mHealth), telemed...

HITECH meets HIPAA. HITECH Act changes to HIPAA obligations for covered entities and business associates.

Application to Business Associates (effective Feb. 17, 2010). The administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, technical safeguards, and policies and procedures documentation requirements of HIPAA that previously applied only to covered entities now apply directly to business associates (both covered entities and business associate are defined terms within HIPAA). The additional security req...