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Issue 51                                             Friday, December 2, 2011 

 

HIPAA Rules Delay Creates Challenges

 

Hospital Privacy Officer Says Budgeting is Difficult

 

The ongoing delay in the release of final versions of HIPAA modifications and the HIPAA breach notification rule makes it more difficult for heathcare organizations to set information security investment priorities, says hospital privacy officer Kari Myrold.

 

 

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HIPAA Rules Delay Creates Challenges

Breaches: Assessing the Economic Impact

 

Study Estimates the Cost of Incidents

 

What's the economic impact of information breaches? The Ponemon Institute, a research organization, makes an educated guess that the impact averages more than $2.2 million every two years for healthcare organizations.

 

  

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Breaches: Assessing the Economic Impact

 

 

Implementing or Enhancing a Compliance Program

 

How does a compliance practitioner create the compliance program, or in McNulty Maxim terms create a "What did you do to prevent it?" compliance program?

 

Many companies are still in the infancy of creating their complaince programs with their General Counsel or perhaps hiring an initial Complaince officer. This person or persons may be somewhat overwhelmed about how to even get started.

 

 

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Implementing or Enhancing a Compliance Program

    

HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit

 

The NIST HIPAA Security Toolkit Application is intended to help organizations better understand the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule, implement those requirements, and assess those implementations in their operational environment.

The HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit User Guide explains how to use the toolkit.

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 HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit

 

12 Valuable Tools for Managing Business Macs
  

The knock on managing Macs in business environments has long been Apple's ambivalent attitude toward providing significant enterprise support. Apple does, of course, offer tools for deploying, configuring, and managing Macs. But to move Macs beyond a departmental setting, IT will often find it necessary to look to third parties for help.

 

 

  

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