Performing a HIPAA Risk Analysis These days, protected health information (PHI) is stored electronically, so that means the risk of a breach to your PHI is very real. Your HIPAA Risk Analysis helps you measure the impact of threats and vulnerabilities that pose a risk to the confidentiality, integrity and availability to your patients’ PHI. […]
The HIPAA Security Rule adopts national standards for safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI) that is created, received, maintained, or transmitted by a Covered Entity (CE) or Business Associate (BA). As a CE or BA, you are required to have in place reasonable and appropriate security measures […]
What is ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malicious software, known as malware, designed to deny access to a user’s data, usually by encrypting the data with a key known only to the hacker who deployed the malware, until a ransom is paid. After the user’s data is encrypted, the ransomware directs the user to […]
Tips For Keeping Your Health Information Safe There are laws that protect the privacy of your health information held by those who provide you healthcare services. But as it becomes easier to get and share your own health information online, you need to take steps to protect it. Does HIPAA Protect All Health Information? No! […]