HIPAA news stories are sometimes so short we need to bundle them together. Some listeners questions are also addressed today. So, we have a little bit of everything in this episode. So stick with us as we go through our HIPAA hodge podge.
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What is HIPAA privacy anyway? The annual reporting deadline for little breaches is up at the end of Feb. That means all those little privacy violations in 2016 must be reported on the HHS website soon if you haven't already done it. Since those little ones often mean so much more than the big ones it made me think it would be a good time to talk about privacy.
A recent bizarre case in an Atlanta suburb made me realize just how much we value our privacy but may not realize it until it has been taken from us.
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OCR continues releasing new settlement agreements on their new pace. There have been two announced in January 2017. We have no idea what will happen now but since these two brought in over $2.6m there may not be a reason we will see them stop their pace.
As always, we believe in learning from other's mistakes (not schadenfreude, though). Time to learn what these two can teach us....
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More reasons to have this coverage pop up every day. Whether it is your own business risk management or those required by a business partner in a contract, all businesses should at least evaluate getting cybersecurity coverage. To help us share information on that we have a guest on this episode.
Interview with John Miller II, Founding Principal, Sterling Risk Advisors
We reviewed the OCR/HHS list of common HIPAA compliance myths when we first started the podcast. Their list is so long that it spread across 3 episodes. Those episodes are still fairly popular today. For today, though, we are covering our own list of common HIPAA compliance myths that we hear.
Our list may be very similar to all the other lists out there but it is important to cover those because they are clearly STILL being passed along. Why do we keep hearing the same things over and over?
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At the beginning of 2016, we did some speculation about what the year would be like in the cybersecurity and HIPAA worlds. Today we plan to review how we did for 2016 and explain expect healthcare breaches continue in 2017.
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We've talked before about HIPAA showing up in lots of other places. That trend has continue. Now, you will see HIPAA questions on cyber security insurance applications, certification programs from other entities, and now in payment model reforms. Today we are going to talk a little bit about MACRA and HIPAA requirements. If you don't know what MACRA, APMs, and MIPS is all about we may not cover enough to explain it all be we will certainly touch on MACRA and HIPAA crossing paths starting in 2017.
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