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Happy Medical Transcriptionist Week! 23 May 2012 | 01:00 am
It’s national Medical Transcriptionist Week. In honor of that, we’re having a sale here at HIPAA4MT and hope you will find something you’d like to have! All of our courses are on sale at some great pr...
Cyber Monday Sales! 29 Nov 2011 | 06:00 am
We're having a cyber Monday sale here at HIPAA4MT and hope you will find something you'd like to have! All of our courses are on sale at some great prices! Too busy to study during the holidays? Not a...
HIPAA and Zero Tolerance Policies 13 Jan 2011 | 01:27 pm
Does your organization have a zero-tolerance policy for violations of patient privacy? If not, perhaps recent events indicate the value of having such a policy. In an example of HIPAA policy enforceme...
Back to School! 19 Aug 2010 | 06:13 am
It's that time of year again! Parents are scrambling to get things ready for the kids to return to school. At the same time, many are savoring the idea of having the house to themselves for a few shor...
Can You Afford a Data Breach? 13 Aug 2010 | 03:37 pm
I ran across an interesting report this week related to data breaches and their cost to an organization. The 2009 Ponemon Institute Benchmark Study was released and makes for some fascinating and scar...
HIPAA and Independent Contractors 28 Jul 2010 | 03:12 am
As we have discussed with the recent rules that were published, independent contractors are now subject to the rules of a business associate, no matter whether they contract directly with the covered ...
New OCR Proposed Rule Available 9 Jul 2010 | 01:22 pm
The Office of Civil Rights has published the new Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) related to the changes in the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules impacted by the HITECH Act. You can read the propo...
HIPAA Policies and Social Media 10 Jun 2010 | 12:20 am
A hospital in California will fire 5 employees and discipline another because they posted information about patients on social media sites. An ongoing investigation at Tri-City Medical Center in Ocean...
HIPAA Compliance and Portable Devices 4 Jun 2010 | 08:48 am
The healthcare industry often uses portable devices for the storage and transmission of protected health information. I find it concerning to hear many of the people I speak with thinking that because...
Think Before You Snoop 28 May 2010 | 05:57 am
In the first HIPAA legal case against an individual, a former UCLA Medical Center researcher was sentenced on April 27 to four months in federal prison for looking at the confidential medical records ...
