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• Due Diligence Mitigates Liability Exposure Under HIPAA and the HITECH Act - Becker's Hospital Review
  

  Due Diligence Mitigates Liability Exposure Under HIPAA and the HITECH Act Becker's Hospital Review Therefore, HIPAA covered entities, business associates and subcontractors need to comply with 45 CFR §164.504(e), which delineates the privacy terms required in HIPAA business associate agreements, pursuant to Section 13404 of the HITECH Act.

• HIPAA changes on the way for covered providers - Chiropractic Economics
  

  HIPAA changes on the way for covered providers Chiropractic Economics A number of rules are finally making their way through the system in relationship to HIPAA, HiTECH and Stage II Meaningful Use. At the end of March 2012, "regzilla" or the "mega rule" was submitted to OMB. This rule is intended to encompass all of the ...

• HIPAA compliance: How to prepare for upcoming KPMG HIPAA audits - TechTarget
  

  HIPAA compliance: How to prepare for upcoming KPMG HIPAA audits TechTarget The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently awarded KPMG, one of the Big Four auditing services, a $9.2 million contract to conduct 150 HIPAA compliance audits in 2012. SearchSecurity.com members gain immediate and unlimited access to ... and more »

• Appeals court upholds HIPAA conviction of EHR snooper - FierceEMR
  

  Appeals court upholds HIPAA conviction of EHR snooper FierceEMR A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a former employee of the UCLA Healthcare System for accessing the hospital's electronic health record system without authorization, in violation of HIPAA. Huping Zhou, a researcher for the hospital, ... and more »

• Independent HIPAA Audit and BAA Prompts Ballard Benefit Works to Select Online ... - MarketWatch (press release)
  

  Independent HIPAA Audit and BAA Prompts Ballard Benefit Works to Select Online ... MarketWatch (press release) ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ballard Benefit Works, a full service employee benefit and health care finance consulting firm, has selected Online Tech's independently HIPAA audited cloud solution. By partnering with an independently ... When Complying With HIPAA Is Not Enough: Tough New Medical Privacy Laws Are In ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration) all 8 news articles »

• HIPAA changes could put tech companies on the hook - Mass High Tech
  

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  HIPAA changes could put tech companies on the hook Mass High Tech According to Stephen Bernstein, international head of the Health Industry Practice Group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Boston, proposed modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement and Breach Notification Rules - part of the so-called ... HIPAA changes could put health IT companies on the hookBoston Business Journal Social Media Poses Potential Patient Privacy Violations for PhysiciansThe Hospitalist Online all 10 news articles »

• BlueBridge Networks Helps Healthcare Industry Maintain HIPAA Security with its ... - MarketWatch (press release)
  

  BlueBridge Networks Helps Healthcare Industry Maintain HIPAA Security with its ... MarketWatch (press release) This is especially true when it comes to HIPAA regulations. For hospitals, research facilities and businesses dealing with the healthcare industry, the regulations for maintaining patient confidentiality can be cumbersome and frequently amended or ... and more »

• Feds Step Up HIPAA Compliance Audits - Connecticut Law Tribune
  

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  Feds Step Up HIPAA Compliance Audits Connecticut Law Tribune By MICHELLE WILCOX DeBARGE and JODY ERDFARB The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has fundamentally changed the health care industry's privacy and security practices. However, the federal government's enforcement efforts ... When HIPAA Is Not Enough: Tougher Texas Privacy LawsLaw360 (subscription) all 2 news articles »

• Media Alert: Upcoming Free Webinar: How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security ... - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
  

  Media Alert: Upcoming Free Webinar: How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Clearwater Compliance founder and CEO, Bob Chaput, will be hosting a webinar on "How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security Compliance Program" Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 03, 2012 Clearwater Compliance founder and CEO, Bob Chaput, will be hosting a ... $100000 HIPAA fine designed to send message to small physician practicesInformationWeek Healthcare HHS Issues $100000 Fine to Small Phoenix Practice, Warning to PhysiciansBecker's ASC Review United States: Small Practice Subject To $100000 Payment To Resolve Alleged ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration) all 9 news articles »

• CellTrust launches HIPAA Compliant Communication Server to Provide Secure SMS ... - MarketWatch (press release)
  

  CellTrust launches HIPAA Compliant Communication Server to Provide Secure SMS ... MarketWatch (press release) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CellTrust Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure mobile communication ( www.celltrust.com ), has announced the launch of the HIPAA Compliant Communication Server; a tailoring of ... and more »

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• Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust
  

  The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said Thursday.

  New analysis of the Flashback botnet and the traffic between infected Macs and C&C (command-and-control) servers exposed the earnings and the lack of payment, Liam O Murchu, manager of operations at Symantec's security response center, said in an interview.

• Cyber spies exploiting Java, Flash flaws
  

  Cyber spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on websites focused on human rights, defense, and foreign policy.

  Over the last two weeks, the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks Internet threats, has discovered several such compromised Web sites that download the malware through visitors' browsers. The malware, which exploits known flaws in Adobe Flash and Java, is aimed at Mac and Windows systems.

• The firestorm over firewalls
  

  I love offering opinions that generate comment after comment about how dumb I am, as my post "Why you don't need a firewall" has achieved. Little do these detractors know that my family and classmates said much meaner things as I was growing up, so it's like water sliding off a duck's back. I appreciate most of the comments -- because many were valid.

  Some commenters, for example, guessed that I might have been exaggerating the tone of the article for effect. Mea culpa!

• A tale of two Facebooks
  

  I love Facebook. I also hate it. And sometimes I'm indifferent, but not often.

  As the big IPO day looms closer, lots of folks are taking a second look at this thing that started out as kind of a goofy diversion for college kids and has grown into the beast with 900 million heads.

• Wikipedia warns users about malware injecting ads into its pages
  

  Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based malware infection, Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on Monday.

• Why you don't need a firewall
  

  Firewalls need to go away. I'm just saying what we all already know. Firewalls have always been problematic, and today there is almost no reason to have one.

  Computer firewalls have been with us since the 1980s. Even early on it was pretty clear that they didn't really work; if they did, we would have defeated malicious hackers and malware a long time ago. But at least back in the day there was a decent reason to need them.

• Apple ships first Leopard security update in nearly a year
  

  Apple on Monday issued its first security-related update for OS X 10.5, or Leopard, in nearly a year, to disable long-outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player.

  Security Update 2012-003 does not patch any known vulnerabilities, but is instead a Leopard-specific version of what Apple released last week for OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, and the newer OS X 10.7, better known as Lion.

• Companies slow to react to mobile security threat
  

  Nearly nine in 10 executives and employees are using their personal smartphones or tablets for business and about half are doing so without the permission of their companies, a new study shows.

  Making the situation even more precarious, less than half of the more than 4,000 mobile device users surveyed by Juniper Networks in the U.S., U.K., Germany, China and Japan took even the most basic precautions in using mobile applications.

• Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy
  

  Facebook says it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but privacy advocates saw the move as an inadequate attempt to quell privacy concerns prior to Facebook's planned initial public offering.

• Adobe backpedals, will now patch recent Creative Suite versions for free
  

  After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn't going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course.

  The company will now fix the eight vulnerabilities in the one-year-old Illustrator and Flash Professional CS5.5, and the two-year-old Photoshop CS5, an Adobe spokeswoman said via email late Friday.

• Why voting machines still suck
  

  Government is up to its neck in tech. From IRS computers calculating taxes to computerized parking meter systems all the way to modern weapons systems, government at every level is utterly tangled up in computing.

• Facebook file-sharing could be security, piracy nightmare
  
  

  Facebook has started to roll out a new file-sharing capability -- and Dropbox shouldn't be the only worried party. The addition of a low-security file-sharing tool to the world's most popular social networking site could open a world of security pain on businesses and home users alike.

• Apple patches 36 bugs in OS X, fixes encryption password goof
  

  Apple yesterday patched 36 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, plugging a hole that revealed passwords used to encrypt folders with an older version of FileVault.

  Both Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes. The two operating systems were last updated in February.

• APT attackers are increasingly using booby-trapped RTF documents
  

  Booby-trapped RTF documents are one of the most common types of malicious Microsoft Office files that are used to infect computers with advanced persistent threats (APTs), according to security researchers from Trend Micro.

  "Taking data from exploit documents gathered last April, we can see that the most exploited MS Office software is MS Word," said Trend Micro senior threat researcher Ryan Flores, in a blog post on Wednesday.

• Cloud Security Alliance pushes for open security certifications
  
  

  If the cloud is to become a viable platform for the enterprise, security is critical.

• Twitter breached, 50,000 accounts posted to Internet
  

  Twitter is investigating an apparent data breach that resulted in more than 50,000 user names and passwords being posted to the Internet. The data was posted across five pages (one, two, three, four, five) on Pastebin, a favorite site for hackers to post their ill-gotten gains.

• PHP patches critical CGI vulnerability
  

  The PHP Group released PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 on Tuesday to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited by hackers.

  "The releases complete a fix for a vulnerability in CGI-based setups (CVE-2012-2311)," the PHP developers said in the release notes. Additionally, PHP 5.4.3 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-2329, in the apache_request_headers() function.

• BlackBerry 10 OS will have multilayer security model
  

  RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is intended to be as secure, if not more so, than the OS running on RIM's current crop of BlackBerry devices. Mobile security could become a major selling point for the new platform, for enterprises, carriers, and users alike.

• Security error in OS X 10.7.3 exposes passwords for legacy FileVault users
  

  A security error in OS X 10.7.3 exposes passwords on systems with support for the pre-Lion FileVault home-directory encryption feature. This security flaw, apparently created when Apple left debugging code in the 10.7.3 update, is only triggered with Lion systems in which legacy support for the original FileVault is retained and when logging in with such an account.

• BYOD will revive network-access control idea, Gartner predicts
  

  Is the BYOD craze going to bring a revival of NAC, the policy-based network-access control that was hyped a decade ago but didn't end up widely adopted for endpoint security?

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  Good video about network security, mentions HIPAA, security and the economics of spam. ABSTRACT Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology [...]
• 11 Years of HIPAA and it’s still not easy for consumers
  NPR did a good audio story on Morning Edition about the current state of HIPAA that is worth a listen. Holding on to health insurance can be a big challenge if you have a chronic disease or history of illness. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Eleven years ago this month, Congress passed [...]
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  Get started with HIPAA compliance by checking out these free checklists. You may want to build your own customized checklist when developing your strategy for complying with HIPAA. Bookmark this page, since it will be updated when we find more useful free HIPAA checklists. Free HIPAA Compliance Checklists Official CMS Provider HIPAA Checklist [PDF] CAL [...]
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  Here are five highly rated books (all available from Amazon.com) that are full of useful information for people who are new to the world of HIPAA compliance. If you are just learning the basics about HIPAA, these are a good place to start building your expertise. #1: Getting Started with HIPAA 608 pages – ISBN: [...]
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  These are the top 10 essential HIPAA books for IT managers to read. Each of these popular titles was rated most highly useful by the cutomers at Amazon. #1 Most Highly Rated HIPAA book for IT Managers: The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities Amazon.com’s description of this book: [...]
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• Independent HIPAA Audit and BAA Prompts Ballard Benefit Works to Select Online Tech’s HIPAA Cloud
  Ballard Benefit Works, a full service employee benefit and health care finance consulting firm, has selected Online Tech’s independently HIPAA audited cloud solution. By partnering
• BlueBridge Networks Helps Healthcare Industry Maintain HIPAA Security with its multimillion dollar investments in its ...
  CLEVELAND, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Customers of BlueBridge Networks have come to rely on the data management and disaster recovery company's keen ability to provide optimal data security. One of the ...
• CellTrust launches HIPAA Compliant Communication Server to Provide Secure SMS, Secure Voice and Secure Email for ...
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CellTrust Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure mobile communication ( www.celltrust.com ), has announced the launch of the HIPAA Compliant ...
• Arizona Cardiac Surgeons Pay $100,000 To Settle HIPAA Violations
  An Arizone cardiac surgery group has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve an investigation into potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In the agreement the surgical group did not offer an admission of liability but did agree to implement a corrective action plan in addition to the payment.
• HIPAA changes could put healthcare IT companies on the hook
  Changes expected to become law in coming months would make high-tech companies that deal with healthcare data - including those in the fields of biometrics, healthcare IT and even cloud hosting services that have healthcare organizations as clients - liable for data breaches under the federal HIPAA statute. But many such companies aren't aware the changes are afoot.
• HIPAA changes could put tech companies on the hook
  Changes expected to become law in coming months would make high-tech companies that deal with healthcare data - including those in the fields of biometrics, healthcare IT and even cloud hosting services that have healthcare organizations as clients - liable for data breaches under the federal HIPAA statute. But many such companies aren't aware the changes are afoot.
• Media Alert: Upcoming Free Webinar: How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security Compliance Program
  Clearwater Compliance founder and CEO, Bob Chaput, will be hosting a webinar on “How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security Compliance Program�Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 03, 2012 Clearwater Compliance founder and CEO, Bob Chaput, will be hosting a webinar on “How to Assess Your HIPAA-HITECH Security Compliance Program�The Challenge:The HITECH Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery ...
• HIPAA-compliant cloud storage services: Due diligence is key to survival
  To provide HIPAA-compliant cloud storage services, storage VARs and MSPs face many, grave regulatory requirements. Learn about the risks and get advice for performing due diligence.
• Media Alert: Clearwater Compliance Begins Registration for its HIPAA Audit Prep BootCamp Event in Chicago
  Presented by leading experts, you will get an intensive education on HIPAA-HITECH 101; tools to prepare for the OCR audits; and a critical understanding of the enforcement and penalties—in one day(PRWEB) May 17, 2012 What:Clearwater HIPAA Audit Prep BootCampTM - The HIPAA Audit Prep BootCamp™ is a one-day intensive educational experience that focuses on:     HIPAA HITECH 101     Privacy ...
• $100,000 HIPAA fine designed to send message to small physician practices
  After avoiding levying fines to small groups for patient privacy and security violations, the government issues its first penalty against one.

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