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If you’ve ever tried to learn another language, you know that it’s incredibly difficult to just jump in—self-instruction can be difficult, disorganized, and overwhelming. It’s helpful, when setting off on this ambitious endeavor, to engage with a helpful tool that features a more structured approach with instruction on specific concepts. Let’s face it—if there’s something out there that can simplify complex ideas, it just makes sense to take advantage of it.

Consider sugar and salt—both are “spices” of a kind, and since they’re both often in the form of fine white grain, they look similar as well. So similar in fact, you might mistakenly switch one in for the other, setting yourself up for quite the surprise at first bite.

TAMPA, FL: Schellman, a leading provider of attestation and compliance services, is pleased to announce the introduction of HIPAA Express, a new service offering aimed at reducing the risk of data breaches and ransomware attacks for large healthcare systems and regional healthcare providers.

Consider two people sharing an umbrella in the rain. They both have the same goal—to reach the car dry, without dropping any of the food they purchased and intend to share—but they each have different responsibilities on the mission: one is holding the umbrella and one has to hold the food.

American everyman Bruce Barton once said: “Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.”

In January of 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services issued an amendment to the Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health (HITECH) Act regarding certain security practices of covered entities and business associates. They define adequate security practices as “standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes developed under section 2(c)(15) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act, the approaches promulgated under section 405(d) of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, and other programs and processes that address cybersecurity and that are developed, recognized, or promulgated through regulations under other statutory authorities.”

“Do I really need to retain all my HIPAA audit logs for 6 years?”

When you were growing up, did your mother keep a special collection of dinnerware? Maybe she had a particular cabinet she kept it in, or maybe it was just hidden away for special occasions, but the point is, your mom had her reasons and designated those plates as unique and worth further protection.