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Last year two doctors in Long Island, Dr. Vikas Desai, and Dr. Robert Maccone, entered into separate civil settlement agreements where they agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,120,299 dollars to resolve allegations

Maintaining a compliant healthcare organization isn’t easy. It requires absolute due diligence to keep up with regulations and protect your organization from loss of profit and legal actions.

60% of practices and businesses that declare a major breach file for bankruptcy within 6 months. -Larry Ponemon Institute, FBI Cybersecurity Bureau, 2016.

Well, hello! Welcome back to our HIPAA Q&A series, where you can get answers to all of your HIPAA questions.

Nothing makes employees cringe like employee training. Add the word “compliance” and you’ll have your staff running for the hills. Training brings to mind hours of monotone lectures, a total snoozefest where employees will have to fight to stay awake. Boring or not, training is a necessity...

Welcome back to our HIPAA Q&A series, where you can get answers to your most pertinent HIPAA questions.

I recently attended the 20th annual HCCA Compliance Institute conference. I attend every year, and look forward to it. As a compliance expert, I go for the people, the networking, but more than anything I go for the information.

In our recent HIPAA webinar, HIPAA Compliance Essentials, I talked about navigating the muddy waters of HIPAA Security and Privacy rules.