HIPAA Compliance Blog

Recently, the Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Roger Severino, made an announcement at the 28th Annual HIPAA Summit in Washington, D.C.

In our last blog, I made a passing mention of how email is a potential source of compromised ePHI (electronic protected health information).

We talk about the importance of HIPAA compliance all the time in the medical profession, and there’s a good reason for that. In today’s article, we’re taking a closer look at a major incident that happened not very long ago.

Colington Consulting is launching a new blog series to explain the recent HIPAA settlements, best practices about HIPAA compliance, and the various requirements an organization must have in place under the HIPAA Security & Privacy Rules.

For those of us involved in the world of HIPAA compliance, we are certainly aware by now that the Breach Notification Rule requires Covered Entities (CE) and Business Associates (BA) to notify affected parties of any breach.