HIPAA Compliance: How To Achieve And Maintain It

On August 31, 2020
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created in 1996 to modernize the flow of healthcare information. It stipulates how all personal data maintained by the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft. It also addresses limitations on healthcare insurance coverage. All healthcare and healthcare insurance industries are required to comply with HIPAA guidelines and can expect to be audited by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an organization within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). HIPAA compliance should be taken very seriously, as violations can carry civil or even

This is a guest post by Irwin Lazar of Nemertes. Irwin develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises enterprise and vendor clients on technology strategy, adoption and business metrics. He is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the digital workplace, covering enterprise communications and collaboration as an industry analyst for over 20 years. We thank him for his contribution to our blog. Today’s workers have a myriad of collaboration tools at their fingertips. Team collaboration apps enable one-on-one and group messaging. Conferencing tools increasingly support video. Document collaboration platforms

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HIPAA Compliance: How To Achieve And Maintain It