7 Priciest HIPAA Incidents of 2015

Practice administrators seeking federal grants or contracts must look beyond HIPAA, completing SAM registration and adopting FAR 52.204‑21’s 15 essential cybersecurity controls to safeguard PHI, PII, FCI and CUI.

Daniel Aaron, MD, JD, an associate professor of law at the University of Utah, joins the show to talk about the new legal standard for assessing medical negligence.

Two class-action lawsuits targeting the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System for years-long cyberstalking and unauthorized access to protected health information spotlight massive HIPAA risk-analysis failures and underscore the urgent need for stronger health care cybersecurity safeguards.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Parisi, Vice President of assurance strategy and Community Development at high trust Alliance, about how physicians and practice owners can discern whether or not communications technology they are interested in integrating into their practice is certified secure.

As biometric technologies expand in health care and consumer surveillance, regulators are cracking down on companies that misuse sensitive data — with HIPAA, FTC orders and billion-dollar state settlements setting the tone.

With the right strategy and tone, you can transform a critical review into an opportunity to strengthen patient relationship.