Healthcare Assessments | HIPAA
By:
Schellman
February 1st, 2024
Successfully managing your HIPAA risk means accounting for those introduced by your vendors that are supplementing existing business processes in different ways. Vendors can make you vulnerable in a variety of ways, which means a variety of solutions becomes necessary.
By:
Schellman
January 17th, 2024
As you may remember, when Tom Sawyer was asked to paint a fence, he ended up outsourcing the job and even got his chosen “vendors” to pay him for the privilege. What was an assigned chore ended up being done by others and turning a profit for Tom.
By:
Schellman
November 15th, 2023
With over two decades of HIPAA history behind us, more than a decade of mandatory compliance and federal compliance enforcement, and a shortage of resources to help hospitals achieve compliance, the healthcare industry is still plagued by non-compliance issues every year—particularly regarding risk and access management.
Healthcare Assessments | Artificial Intelligence
By:
Jerrad Bartczak
November 7th, 2023
To accommodate the ever-evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, HITRUST has released HITRUST CSF v11.2.0, updating its framework to include more pertinent concepts—one of the most notable additions is artificial intelligence (AI) risk management content.
By:
Schellman
October 31st, 2023
If you’re in healthcare, you likely already know that maintaining HIPAA compliance requires a very thorough risk assessment. What you may not know is that HIPAA risk assessments are also an aspect of the law that is too often overlooked.
By:
RYAN MEEHAN
September 19th, 2023
Though considered somewhat abbreviated in comparison to HITRUST’s other certification options, the HITRUST e1 Certification still represents a potentially beneficial path, particularly for those organizations that have already established their compliance programs.
By:
RYAN MEEHAN
September 14th, 2023
Service providers—e.g., SaaS, IaaS, PaaS—are currently seeing significant growth in the healthcare vertical, where they’re classified as “business associates” to the healthcare providers, insurers, and clearinghouses that are collectively referred to as “covered entities.” (Note that subcontractors to business associates are also classified as business associates.)
By:
Kevin Keane
September 7th, 2023
In American history, the Westward Expansion is an important theme of our 19th century. What began with 13 colonies that fought for American independence eventually—after many years—grew to include more places that held more people and different opportunities.