Sep 14, 2020 | Compliance & Regulations, HIPAA
Out of Sight Shouldn’t Mean Out of Mind – Expanded HIPAA Compliance Officer Duties With COVID-19, data breaches and ransomware attacks have skyrocketed. The FBI reported that there were more cyber incidents reported in the first half of 2020 compared with all of...
Jul 20, 2020 | Business, Security & Technology, Specialty Training
The need for healthcare providers to adopt telehealth technology came suddenly and without warning. The Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent National Emergency Declaration, dealt an immediate blow to healthcare delivery and reimbursement for those services. Elective...
Apr 7, 2020 | Compliance & Regulations, coronavirus, Education, Government Reporting, HIPAA, Infectious Disease Control, PPE, Specialty Training
While it is too early to assess the damage caused by this global pandemic, there are signs that it will permanently change the way society functions. From its impact on the global economy to our daily lives, COVID-19 will leave an enormous impact on the ways in which...
Mar 29, 2020 | coronavirus, Education, Government Reporting, HIPAA, HIT/EHR, Infectious Disease Control, MACRA/MIPS, OSHA, PPE
President Donald Trump announced a dramatic expansion of covered Telehealth services last week for Medicare recipients. So what does that mean for you as Healthcare providers and for Medicare patients? In the decades that Telemedicine has been in existence, there has...
Mar 11, 2020 | Compliance & Regulations, Cybersecurity, HIPAA
During a risk analysis and compliant review, I showed a distraught CEO that she had over $ 5.8 million in regulated data on an unencrypted desktop computer, that wasn’t backed up, with a user password set to never expire. It hit close to home, because the data...
Nov 24, 2019 | Cybersecurity
How a single ransomware attack destroyed a thriving medical business and how to avoid it happening to you or your clients. I was sitting at a local breakfast spot near my home in Michigan one recent morning with a friend. I was discussing my work (online training for...
