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How to Mitigate Compliance Risks with BYOD

…Furthermore, the communication may include PHI, raising compliance obligations such as state laws or HIPAA security requirements. There is no quick and easy remedy to completely eliminate all risks associated…

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“Bring Your Own Device” To Work Programs

…primary care physician (PCP) to obtain guidance or to provide an update. That communication includes PHI, raising compliance obligations, such as state laws or HIPAA security requirements. In the long…

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Lessons Learned from Target’s Data Breach Discovery Win

…made that attorney-client privilege should attach to the communications associated with the work that these experts perform, including written reports that communicate the results of interviews, forensic exams, and similar…

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Trends in HIPAA Enforcement Actions

…inquiries from OCR or other agencies. These takeaways are just some of the key components of a comprehensive compliance program. Tara Cho, an attorney no longer with Poyner Spruill, was…

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Help! They’ve got Grandma’s Data and They’re Holding it for Ransom!

…ransomware that had infected its computers. To date, there have been no reports of assisted living companies being targeted, but assisted living communities have been targets of other cyber attacks,…

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OCR Clarifies confusion with the $6.50 flat fee charge for PHI

…entity charges the flat fee for electronic copies of PHI, avoiding the calculations and schedules required when charging its actual or average costs, the flat fee charged must not exceed…

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EHR Incentives for Hospitals — Defining the First Milestones in Achieving “Meaningful Use”

…CMS is urging interested stakeholders to comment on its first comprehensive attempt at framing the EHR incentive program, to help inform its development of the final meaningful use criteria. In…

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Finger-Stick to Infection: Minimizing Risk for Your Residents and Facility

…prevent infections, evaluates staff practices for consistency with proper infection control practices; and appropriately prohibits contact between direct staff who have communicable diseases/open lesions and residents. Specifically, the interpretive guidelines…

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Midnight’s Requiem – See You at the Rainbow Bridge

…just after the big snow, she calmly went out for a morning walk but didn’t come home at 9 p.m. I panicked. She didn’t come home the next day at…

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Recovery Audit Contractors: New Insights From the Government and Steps to Being Prepared

…RAC record requests (will likely differ for an automated versus a complex review). This includes: ◦Assigning roles and responsibilities (along with appropriate time frames for completion) to tasks associated with…