HIPAA training may immediately conjure images of bored staff, slogging through the annual training videos to check a box and move on with their job. But training is key to creating compliance in action, so it is critical to think beyond the requirements and implement...
HIPAA compliance may seem simple from the outside: understand the rules, and follow them. But anyone working in compliance knows that it’s much more than that—and while you tailor policies, training, and contracts to the needs of your organization, your high-level...
Checklists are popular in healthcare, particularly for doctors and nurses to use during certain procedures to improve patient safety. Though your compliance department won’t use checklists for this purpose, there are ways you can use them to streamline your HIPAA...
As a healthcare organization, you know you have to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). But then you hear about organizations that become “HIPAA Certified” with a badge to show for it, and maybe you wonder, Does my organization...
If you’re a HIPAA-covered organization that uses social media (and you probably do), beware of HIPAA violations. Breaches happen all the time through a healthcare organization’s social media accounts or from their employees’ personal accounts. Common breaches...