The OCR audits have begun. On Wednesday, July 13, audit selected CEs where invited to a webinar. OCR staff walked through the processes they can expect for the audit and expectations for their participation. The OCR published information from the webinar so we had to check it out and share what we learned with you guys.
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Say it ain't so! Pokemon and a HIPAA breach really? REALLY!
Creatures are showing up in offices and hospitals just like everywhere else. The concept of keeping people active and engaged with their surroundings while playing a video game seems like a great idea from a healthcare standpoint. And then you actually do a risk assessment of it - this is where the wheels fall off that good idea train.
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We first talked about this in Ep 62. Darknet sale of healthcare records. Now, more information is coming out and it gets more unfortunate for patients every time we read more.
Deep Dot Web broke the news: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/06/26/655000-healthcare-records-patients-being-sold/
We picked it up on Data Breaches.net because they were trying to figure out who the entities actually were in each case: https://www.databreaches.net/damn-anyone-know-what-facilities-these-are/
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